The only appropriate response to the climate catastrophe in Pakistan is to unconditionally cancel the country's external debts. These resources should be used to support people and ecosystems rather than to service foreign capital. It is a minimal first step toward reparations.

The tragedy in Pakistan is a stark reminder of climate injustice. The top map shows which nations are most responsible for excess emissions. The bottom map shows which nations are most impacted by it. Climate breakdown is playing out along colonial lines.

Ecosocialism: an economic system where production is focused on ensuring good lives for all within ecological limits, controlled democratically by workers and communities, with universal public services, an equitable distribution of income, and internationalist solidarities.

The forces of capital that exploit nature are the very same forces that exploit human labour. As Jason Moore puts it, the only coherent response to this violence is a working class movement in solidarity with the web of life.

You have to ask yourself: if our economic system actively destroys the biosphere *and* fails to meet most people's basic needs, then what is actually the point?