Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri and José Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net
In the present age, one would expect the global warming debate to be focused on the development of renewable energy, the more efficient management of natural resources, the geo-engineering, the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions, and the legal reforms that can cushion the impact of human activity on the planet. Unfortunately, a Latin American government trying to divert the discussion to issues specific to a time before the Internet could not miss at the Summit of Climate Change in Cancun, revisiting the idea of dismantling capitalism as the great panacea for saving the world from all the problems that afflict it.
"Either capitalism dies or Mother Earth dies", was the approach that brought Evo Morales to Mexico, returning us to a time when foreign policy was based on the acceptance or rejection of Marxism. But of course, for those who live in Latin America it is nothing new to see a politician explaining each event with the Leninist ideology, or that leaders like Chavez and Morales never knew the failure of communism in all regions where it was tested.
What can socialist regimes teach us about environmental policy? The worst nuclear disaster happened on Earth occurred in Chernobyl, then one of the republics of the USSR. The title of global largest emitter of carbon dioxide is held by China. Much of the water consumed in Vietnam has so much pollution that the issue has repeatedly been qualified by UNICEF as a "pressing environmental problem". North Korea has serious air pollution records because that nation produces enough of its energy from coal. And Laos is one of countries with highest deforestation rate, while Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia lost respectively 1.97%, 0.55% and 0.45% (per year) of its trees between 1990 and 2010.
Clearly, the socialist models have no moral authority to criticize capitalism for the environmental degradation, so it's obvious that the solution to climate change is not in the Communists schemes of economic organization.
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