ABSTRACT
We need to debate the construction of an alternative development path globally because the existing model of neo-liberal capitalism involves deepening social inequality and ecological degradation. The climate crisis is deepening. Despite 17 years of negotiations there is no binding global agreement on the reduction of carbon emissions. In fact carbon emissions are rising, which means climate change is intensifying and having devastating impacts – particularly on the working class – in the form of rising food prices, water shortages, crop failures and so on. Sub-Saharan Africa will be the worst affected.
