Chris Williams, activist and author of “Ecology And Socialism”, spoke to the recent BP ecological crisis at a public meeting presented by the ISO (International Socialist Organization) in New York City. He tackles the “how’s” and “why’s” of the policies that led to our current crisis and examines the role that a democratic socialist society could play in an ecological restructure.  From EcoSocialism Canada.

As he said, the bodies of the BP workers were never found, and all our government can do is reference an invisible hand of God. Our government’s real “gods” are oil and consumption and growth, which is ironic, because these things are going to end up killing us. Maybe those are the hands Obama was referring to.

It’s clear that capitalism is leading to a future that is even more dangerous to human life,  and unsustainable, but so far there is no move in the U.S. to replace it with anything that would be acceptable to the people on the “right”.  They favor growth and corporations over peoples’ lives.