About 130 environmental activist groups who met at a United Nations-backed conference on climate change called for an end to capitalism, declaring that global warming can't be stopped without ending the "hegemonic capitalist system," the Daily Caller reported.
The groups issued what is being called the Margarita Declaration, Green website Respond to Climate Change stated. "The structural causes of climate change are linked to the current capitalist hegemonic system. To combat climate change it is necessary to change the system," reads the final draft of the declaration.
This declaration will be handed to environment ministers when they meet in the UN's talks in Lima later this year, Breitbart reported, adding that participants at the meeting included the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Climate Action Network International, Third World Network and Christian Aid.
"Environmentalists surprised U.N. officials by offering up a declaration that not only seeks to end capitalism, but one that also opposes U.N.-backed efforts to fight global warming - namely, cap-and-trade and forest conservation programs," according to the Daily Caller. "Rejection of cap-and-trade and forest conservation programs also fly in the face of U.S. and European environmental groups, which back programs to limit and price carbon dioxide emissions."
In the U.S., environmentalists rallied behind the Environmental Protection Agency proposals to cut carbon dioxide emissions from new and existing power plants - a plan that would force the shutdown of coal-fired power plants.
"Climate disruption is the greatest challenge facing our generation," Michael Brune, the director of the Sierra Club, said in a statement in June. "Until now, power plants have been allowed to dump unlimited amounts of carbon pollution into our air, driving dangerous climate disruption, and fueling severe drought, wildfires, heat waves and superstorms."
The declaration also condemned the idea of having a so-called "Green Economy", claiming this was nowhere near radical enough, and only the end of the capitalist system would solve the problem of climate change.
Venezuela, governed by a staunchly socialist government and its policies, have been left impoverished, with the government forced to ration basic supplies such as water, flour, milk, vegetable oil and toilet paper, Breitbart reported.
