{"id":265394,"date":"2026-08-12T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&p=265394"},"modified":"2026-08-11T14:09:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:09:41","slug":"summer-of-discontent","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/summer-of-discontent\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer of discontent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grimly facing drought, hosepipe bans, wildfires and yet another heatwave? You won’t be comforted to know that ‘greenhouse gas concentrations, global sea level and ocean heat content all reached record highs in 2025’ (phys.org<\/a>). European rivers are at record lows. The US has had its hottest July<\/a> on record, as has the Sahel, Central America, France and Spain<\/a>. And don’t stock up your freezer with ice cream because you could soon be facing rolling energy blackouts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s not all bad news though. Water company bosses are still getting bonuses<\/a>, oil companies are cashing in<\/a> like never before, and tech stocks are going stratospheric<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Still think capitalism is humanity’s best hope? We say it’s time to consider the alternative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-265394","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/265394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}