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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/9775084
A talk given to the Young Communist League’s Harry Pollitt School, on China’s international strategy on climate and the environment.
Carlos Martinez looks at what’s actually happening on the ground: China’s solar capacity has overtaken coal for the first time, its carbon emissions have been flat or falling for nearly two years, and it’s now exporting that green transition to the Global South — financing solar and wind projects across Africa, helping Cuba keep the lights on through a brutal US blockade, and making clean energy cheap enough for the rest of the world to actually use.
The talk sets this against the record of the imperialist powers: Trump pulling out of the Paris Agreement for a second time, tariffs on Chinese solar panels and EVs, and a West that’s had thirty years of climate summits with precious little to show for it. It makes the case that China’s record isn’t an accident, but the product of a planned, socialist economy – and asks what that means for socialists in Britain.
The Apotheosis of War is an 1871 painting by Russian war artist Vasily Vereshchagin. Following his completion of the painting, Vereshchagin dedicated his work “to all great conquerors, past, present and to come”. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts a pile of skulls outside the walls of a city in Central Asia.
It is considered part of Vereshchagin’s Turkestan Series.
The painting is now displayed in the Tretyakov Gallery, in Moscow.