Gaza isn’t just a genocide — it’s a preview.
What Israel is doing with U.S. weapons in Palestine is a blueprint for a future of climate apartheid: brutal, racist, and profitable.
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The complete dismissal of entire populations as sub-human is a stark reminder that the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade and colonial genocide of indigenous populations by Western empires have never left us. It is also a frightening reflection of the priorities of the world’s rulers as we watch the planet’s life-support systems erode due to ecological collapse.
The ruling class’s desire to preserve a society that is free from ecological breakdown extends only to a future reserved for themselves – a minority of multi-millionaires and billionaires. Meanwhile, what we are witnessing in Gaza is a sign of what is to come in an era of growing ecological breakdown brought on by a capitalist world order that is no longer fit for purpose, if it ever was.
As Colombian president Gustavo Petro declared at the COP28 climate conference in Dubai last year: “Gaza is the mirror of our immediate future.”
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/palestine-against-an-eco-apartheid-world/
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