We need to massively alter how we consume, if we're to have any chance of ensuring a sustainable future.
This is not possible under the current system, which requires perpetual growth, with corporations continuously plundering the planet's resources, so that they can produce poor quality products, and products that we don't really need, which they can they manipulate us into purchasing, so that they can constantly increase their profits.
It is this system that is at the root of imperialism. For hundreds of years, western foreign policy has been about extracting resources, for the benefit of corporations, to maintain economic growth, and enrich an elite few.
Now, with decarbonization on the agenda, this will likely continue, but they will now wage military and economic wars for lithium, rather than just oil.
Any environmental movement needs to focus on opposing the capitalist system and the imperialism that it fuels and requires. If it does not do this, it is just calling for the exploitation, plunder and consumption to continue, but in a less carbon-intensive manner.
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