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The over-exploitation of the environment, like the over-exploitation of labor, depend on capitalist defense of private property and profit for the ruling class. A treaty to limit exploitation on an international scale depends on socialists weilding state power on behalf of the working class, gauranteeing them a fair share of the product of their labor, and guaranteeing certain protections for the environment with which the costs of violations will always far exceed the benefits. A reversal of the damage done can depend on treaties as a first step in an expressly approved process towards the formation of a world federation. The WSWS denies this possibility, arguing only in favor of globalization combined with syndicalism, an abstract support for a general strike. Treaties and the federation can limit trade and development that does not fall under the protection of the new authority, putting economic development second in priority to international unity of the working class. This means that governments, companies, and even socialist industries must prove that they respect universal rights for workers and the environment or suffer economic penalties similar to those exacted by capitalism, the IMF, and imperialist sanctions. In this way environmental destruction and the destruction of human life and culture will lose the incentives they receive under capitalism. This can only happen under governments formed by the revolutionary proletariat taking power everywhere in a united struggle against global capitalism.