The Global Environmental Catastrophe Has Begun!

Huge forest and bush fires, gigantic downpours, dying forests, floods, drought disasters, and tornadoes – almost daily reports of disasters in newspapers and on news tickers. A number of irreversible processes of destruction and self-destruction in nature are unfolding and calling survival into question in more and more regions. These processes make it clear that the global environmental catastrophe has begun! Mainly responsible for this development are the international supermonopolies which, in their pursuit of maximum profit, ruthlessly and against better knowledge brush aside the urgently necessary environmental protection and acutely required emergency measures. All those who do not want to perish in the global environmental catastrophe are challenged today, as never before, to take up a society-changing struggle. The book makes unmistakably clear: the rescue of humanity will be possible only in genuine socialism. This book is the supplement to the book, Catastrophe Alert! What Is to Be Done Against the Willful Destruction of the Unity of Humanity and Nature?, published in 2014. The supplementary volume proves that many of the prognoses made then are becoming a reality faster than expected. We are in a race against time!

Stefan Engel, a trained mechanic and today a free publicist, was Chairman of the MLPD for 37 years. He has made his theoretical work and his practical know-how in the leadership of workers' struggles available to the revolutionary working-class movement for decades, also internationally. Since 1991 Stefan Engel is head of the editorial board of Revolutionärer Weg, the theoretical organ of the MLPD. He is recognized as a Marxist-Leninist theoretician throughout the world. Monika Gärtner-Engel is MLPD Internationalism Secretary, Main Coordinator of the revolutionary world organization ICOR, and Co-President of the United Front. She is co-author of the book, New Perspectives for the Liberation of Women, and a recognized representative of the international militant women's movement. Gabi Fechtner, a trained toolmaker, is MLPD Chairwoman since April 2017 and thus the first woman worker to lead a revolutionary party in Germany. She has already contributed to several publications in the collective of the editorial board of Revolutionärer Weg.

Table of Contents The Global Environmental Catastrophe Has Begun! Introduction V. The Ambivalent Character of the UN Climate Reports 2021–2023 VI. From Global Environmental Crisis to Global Environmental Catastrophe VII. Essential Features of the Global Environmental Catastrophe A. Development of the Previous Main Features of the Global Environmental Crisis A.1. From Climate Crisis to Global Climate Catastrophe A.2. Sustained Destruction of the Ozone Layer A.3. Danger of Collapse of the World's Oceans A.4. Accelerated Destruction of Forests A.5. Extinction of Species and Destruction of Ecosystems A.6. Increasingly Ruthless Overexploitation of Natural Materials A.7. New Quality of Waste Proliferation, Poisoning and Pollution of the Biosphere A.8. Irresponsible Renaissance of Nuclear Energy A.9. Regional Environmental Disasters in New Quantity and Quality B. New Main Factors of the Global Environmental Catastrophe B.10. Irreversible Disturbances of Ocean Currents and Jet Streams B.11. Extreme Heat and Cold as Immediate Threat to Human Life B.12. Unbridled Proliferation of Forest Fires B.13. Threatening Global Drinking Water Catastrophe B.14. Monopolistic Agricultural Industry Endangers the Environment and Human Food Security B.15. Environmental Catastrophe and the Danger of World War B.16. Environmental Dangers of Imperialist Outer Space Politics B.17. The Global Environmental Catastrophe Inevitably Generates Huge Refugee Movements VIII. Proletarian Strategy and Tactics in the Environmental Struggle 1. Enlargement of Marxist-Leninist Strategy 2. Further Development of the Proletarian Strategy and Tactics of the Environmental Struggle 3. Enlarged Strategy and Tactics in the Struggle over the Mode of Thinking 4. Characteristics of the New Quality of the International Environmental Struggle 5. Socialist Construction in the Global Environmental Catastrophe IX. Guidelines for an Enlarged Program of Struggle for Immediate Steps and Protective Measures against the Global Environmental Catastrophe