Write a speech on the topic ' save earth save humanity'.
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So we should respect and maintain everything we get from our mother earth. We should save the mother earth so that our future generations can live in a safe environment. We can save the earth by saving trees, natural vegetation, water, natural resources, electricity, etc.
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Two interrelated global crises confront us in this intense epoch. Exponentially accelerated technological development has pushed the inherent contradiction of capitalist to its limit and created an polarization of wealth and power, manifesting itself in broad declines in the standard of living of previously secure sectors and the absolute impoverishment of over one-fifth of the earth’s population. At the same time, global warming, the destruction of natural resources, and the fouling of land, water and air call into question the very future of the planet.
Saving humanity and saving the earth are one and the same struggle. It is increasingly clear to many that capitalism, with its overarching drive to accumulate and expand, and treating nature as a commodity in the same way it treats humanity and human needs, is fundamentally unable to save the environment. It is no wonder that concepts such as ecosocialism and solar communism are being debated in the environmental movement.
Leading climate change scientists estimate that unchecked global warming, caused by oil and fossil fuel consumption, will result in global sea level rise and agricultural collapse. Some estimate that we may have only a decade left to put in place a prevention program to avoid catastrophic climate change. Biologist David Schwartzman, in his 2009 article “Ecosocialism or Ecocatastrophe?” wrote “The threat of ecocatastrophe is no longer a potential contingent outcome in some indefinite future….it is now highly probable in the near future unless radical changes in both political and physical economies are made in time”. He cites as the major obstacle to these radical changes the nuclear-military-industrial-fossil-fuel complex, especially its U.S.
Public acceptance of the science of global warming has fluctuated widely over the past five years, from 71% in 2007 to 44% in 2011. An onslaught of propaganda has utilized pseudoscience to sow doubt about the role of human activity in causing climate change, and has promoted the concept that environmental laws and regulations are “job killers” in a time of suffering from high unemployment.
Naomi Klein, in her November 2011 article in The Nation, “Capitalism vs. Climate”, points out that these forces understand very well that a meaningful response to global warming is antithetical to free-market capitalism, but that Democrats also have gone mute on the subject in order not to alienate independents, and that “the liberal climate movement runs away from the deep political and economic implications of climate science”.
Technological Revolution in Service of Earth and Humanity
The revolution in technology and the exponential increase in productive capacity force us to rethink many assumptions about what value is. Conventional economists deal only with exchange value, that is, how goods are bought and sold. Exchange value is tied to scarcity. If there is not enough of something, exchange value is used to determine who gets it and how it is traded. But if the things we need are abundant and freely available, exchange value becomes irrelevant. In an era in which it is possible to produce sufficient necessities for all, we should not be basing our economy on exchange value but on use value, that is, on what benefits humanity materially, culturally and spiritually.
Increased productivity does not have to mean increased consumerism and waste. Consumerism is a product of capitalism and exchange value, which uses clever manipulation to persuade people to buy things, not because they are needed, but because the profitable products are aggressively advertised and people are made to feel left out if they don’t have them. Increased unnecessary capitalist production using fossil fuels has led to vast environmental problems, in terms of the energy it takes to make them, the pollution from the byproducts of production and the waste of discarded goods.
Because Karl Marx was living and writing in the early stages of capitalism, he focused his analysis on what creates exchange value (labor) and where profit comes from (surplus labor-power). This does not mean that he did not recognize use value. He built his critique of political economy in large part around the contradiction between use value and exchange value. In fact, he frequently referred to sustainability as a material requirement for any future society – the need to protect the earth for successive generations.