Ecological
transformation

Don’t change the climate, change the system.

SOCIALLY JUST AND ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE EUROPE

IN BRIEF

    • Ecological collapse and climate change threaten human survival.

    • Militarisation and capitalism accelerate environmental destruction.

    • Public ownership and long-term planning must replace profit-driven systems.

    • Food sovereignty, sustainable industry, and climate adaptation are urgent.

    • Animal protection is part of social and ecological justice.

SURVIVAL AT STAKE

Capitalism and its culture of overconsumption have reached even the most remote parts of the Earth. There is virtually no place left untouched by microplastics, PFAS, and other toxic pollutants.

Climate change is accelerating and warming of two degrees or more by 2050 is increasingly likely.

Europe may not yet be equally affected everywhere, but it will face the consequences of its past and present industrial and imperial consumption model.

Peace, Environment and Capitalism

Despite limited transparency, it is clear that the military-industrial complex has one of the largest ecological footprints in the world.

Conflicts are often driven by competition over resources. As resources become scarce and habitable zones shrink, tensions and wars increase.

Green capitalism does not exist. Only systemic change can address the root causes of ecological destruction.

It is time to decolonise the Earth, take responsibility, and build a sustainable future for all.

Peace, human suffering, and environmental destruction are deeply connected.

Public Ownership of Common Goods

decolonise, decommodify, socialise

Given climate destabilisation, environmental policy must follow two paths:

  1. Rapidly reduce emissions and transform production.
  2. Prepare for a future of extreme weather, disasters, and post-extractivism.

Our current trajectory leads to division, instability, and conflict. We fight instead for a Europe based on solidarity — where no one goes hungry, no one dies from preventable heat exposure, and nationalism is consigned to the past.

Key priorities include:

  • Ending luxury space tourism and regulating pollution in space
  • Strategic long-term planning
  • Prioritising human rights over property rights
  • Measuring progress by human well-being rather than GDP
  • Public ownership of essential services
  • Climate financing and adaptation funding without neo-colonial conditions
  • Recognition of climate refugees
  • Penalising excessive consumption
  • Living within the planetary boundaries
  • Ending luxury space tourism and regulating pollution in space

The common good cannot continue to be sacrificed for shareholder profit.

A Truly European Agricultural and Food System

Food production under capitalism often fails even farmers themselves. Most farmers survive only through public funding.

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) lacks clear, consistent objectives and remains focused on profitability rather than food sovereignty.

The current system benefits large agribusinesses and the industrial livestock sector. Workers endure harsh conditions, especially in fields and slaughterhouses. Animals are treated as commodities. Environmental costs are externalised.

We propose redirecting CAP funding towards food security and sovereignty rather than market competitiveness. Food and water must take priority over conspicuous consumption.

KEY MEASURES INCLUDE:

  • Ensuring sufficient nutrient production for European food sovereignty
  • Preventing land speculation
  • Supporting cooperative and organic agriculture
  • Improving labour standards and guaranteeing fair wages
  • Ending food waste along the value chain
  • Reducing animal product production to ecologically sustainable levels
  • Promoting plant-based diets
  • Protecting water safety
  • Phasing out harmful chemicals
  • Restoring forests, soils, and marine ecosystems
  • Establishing protected land and marine areas (at least 30%, one-third strictly protected)

Climate Change and Adaptation

The Paris Agreement and the EU Green Deal remain essential, even if temperature limits may be exceeded. Every 0.1 degree of warming increases suffering.

WE must:

  • Restore forests, soils, and marine ecosystems; ban deforestation-linked imports, and deep-sea mining
  • Revitalise the Precautionary Principle
  • Develop comprehensive adaptation and disaster strategies
  • Establish a European Ministry for Adaptation and Catastrophe Response
  • Upgrade infrastructure
  • Protect vulnerable communities
  • Redistribute revenues from emissions taxes
  • Prepare for climate-related public health impacts
  • Monitor pollution-related health risks
  • Prepare for the spread of tropical diseases

Sustainable Economics: A Second Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution transformed society — but today we require a new transformation. Our goal is a Second Industrial Revolution that shifts from economic growth to human flourishing. We must acknowledge that many Europeans belong to the global 10 percent responsible for the majority of environmental destruction. Consumption must fall to ecologically sustainable levels.

The market is not directed towards human needs, but towards profit and manufactured needs. Europe produces enough — but distribution is unjust. Production should serve communities, not corporate profit.

KEY PROPOSALS:

  • Public evaluation of economic activities
  • Reindustrialisation within the planetary boundaries
  • True cost accounting
  • Corporate liability for pollution (including recognition of ecocide)
  • Circular economy policies
  • Ban planned obsolescence and guarantee long-term repairability
  • Reduce working hours to align production with ecological limits
  • Create public spaces free from consumer pressure

Energy, Housing and Mobility Transformation

People’s choices are shaped by infrastructure and policy. We aim for clean energy, dignified housing, and accessible mobility.

THIS REQUIRES:

  • Exiting the Energy Charter Treaty
  • Ending fossil fuel subsidies
  • Prioritising renewables and decentralised production
  • Zero-carbon housing upgrades
  • Strengthening European rail networks
  • Free and accessible public transport
  • Banning private jets, mega-yachts, and short-haul flights under 1000 km

Animals — Someone, Not Something

Animals are not commodities. Billions suffer in industrial systems designed for profit.

WE SUPPORT:

  • Implementation of European Citizens’ Initiatives banning cages, fur, and animal testing
  • Ending long-distance live animal transport
  • Stronger penalties for animal cruelty
  • Transparent labelling of animal living conditions
  • Banning wild animals in circuses
  • Phasing out entertainment practices based on animal suffering

Animal protection is inseparable from ecological and social justice.

The resources exist. What is needed is the political courage to put life before profit.

Human survival, social justice, and ecological balance are inseparable. We can continue along the path of destruction — or we can choose solidarity, sustainability, and collective responsibility.

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