What you see is a tragic depiction of plastic bags (plastic sacks) being littered in the environment and the mountainous heights of Tete Ooraman. Hundreds of kilos of these plastic bags, used by Kolbars for packing loads, are dumped into the Kurdistan environment daily, posing an environmental catastrophe in Kurdistan.
Capitalism is not a flaw, it’s an order, doing precisely what it’s designed for and working flawlessly under its own conditions. There’s just one “minor dilemma”: the existence of humans, species, societies, but all these are not mistakes of this system. Many still believe that these are results of carelessness and errors, not the capitalist system itself, which is actually designed for. Marx, building upon the works of predecessors, extended the ecological issue to society and the economic system governing it and argued that the capitalist system is the cause of ecological devastation. Engels and later thinkers like Bukharin and contemporary intellectuals like John Bellamy Foster expanded Marx’s views using historical materialism.
In Kurdistan, the regime and capitalists like the Revolutionary Guards have been agents of environmental destruction. This regime has deliberately sought to destroy the environment of Kurdistan since its inception. Forest fires, mining in border areas, military maneuvers and the bombardment of mountains and pastures, plundering of natural resources, extraction of mines in a predatory manner, drying up Lake Urmia and wetlands, transferring toxic waste to the outskirts of cities, and even contaminating rivers, pulling military roads up mountains and hills are just a few examples of the Islamic government’s relentless efforts to strike and destroy the environment of Kurdistan.
The existing relations, a product of colonial policies in Kurdistan, have created a situation where the ultimate outcome is economic underdevelopment in Kurdistan. Such relations have led to the plundering of Kurdistan’s resources, the creation of a devastated economic environment, environmental destruction, widespread unemployment, extensive economic poverty, the spread of social harms, and so on. The Islamic Republic, as a link in this global system of capitalist exploitation, has confronted the environment of Kurdistan with immense and perhaps irreversible problems.
In conclusion, it must be said that socialists seek a final solution to the ecological problem by changing the relationship between humans and nature in a way that this relationship evolves from its current hostile state to a friendly one. This is only possible if a system (socialist) is established in which production is motivated not by the profit-seeking of capitalists but by meeting the material and spiritual needs of humans.
