As the world is witnessing a humanitarian crisis, the environment is also plagued with human intervention crises. Excessive use of anything doesn’t result in any productive result. Marx and Engels viewed ‘humans not as something separate from the environment, as capitalist ideological orthodoxy does, but dialectically interconnected”. Marx writes about the relationship between nature and humanity: ‘nature is man’s inorganic body’. The organism interacts with its environment while simultaneously the environment acts back on the organism.
In the process, both are changed. And this is very true to its senses, every interaction of humans with nature has changed it but not in a good sense, and we humans have only ripped the seeds of goodness. The carbon emission by 2050 has to be reduced to net-zero, to reduce negative impacts on the environment.
The use of fossil fuels must be substantially reduced to tackle the climate crisis, a delayed United Nations report warned today, leading to calls for an immediate end to investments in carbon-based energy.
UN science body the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its assessment report, spelling out how to cut emissions by switching to increasingly cheap renewables and fuels such as hydrogen, as well as through energy efficiency, carbon capture, and tree planting.
It highlights how consumers can be encouraged to make green choices- by eating less meat, switching to renewable home heating, and taking up walking and cycling stead of cars. Driving electric cars is how cities can be made greener. The report wars that meeting the goals is necessary for the countries to limit temperature rises. Which impacts climate change rapidly and cut greenhouse gas emissions in all areas.
In Britain, the current energy crisis has provoked clashes over whether to speed up the shift away from oil and gas and towards clean heating. Renewables and insulation or to boost domestic fossil fuel supplies from the North sea or fracking. The UN report says that there are still routes to curbing global warming, but only if decisive action is taken immediately.
UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said the report was a “litany of broken climate promises” and called for an urgent shift of investment from fossil fuels towards renewables, protecting forests, and cutting methane emissions. Global Witness said that warnings in the report “must be the death knell for the fossil fuel age”.
Therefore, a solution to sustainable development should be thought of to cut down emissions and also reduce excessive heating of the earth. Charles Darwin had scientifically proved that we have evolved from nature itself, whom we treat as inferior to us. A sustainable way of life is the only solution that can help the earth from the climatic crisis that it is facing now. As Marx said, “rapid climate change and revolutionary social change are analogous because they both exemplify the sudden transformation of quantity into quality.”
