#climatecolonialism — Public Fediverse posts
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"Unjust Transition: Reclaiming the Energy Future from Climate Colonialism
The global energy transition stands at a pivotal moment: it can either dismantle the inequalities driving the climate crisis or deepen them.
Today, the transition risks reproducing patterns of extractivism and exploitation, with the most marginalized paying the highest price while elites profit. From transition mineral mining to debt burdens and unequal energy access, the current trajectory mirrors centuries of colonial injustice. A just transition must redistribute power and resources, curb overconsumption, and prioritize dignity and rights for all. This report outlines pathways to build an energy system grounded in equality, justice, care and collective wellbeing — where energy serves life, not profit."
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@fulelo @farhanasultana @ericholthaus
Here some extracts of the article (to make you read it, it's totally worth 😉):"While the global community congratulates itself on achieving what is politically possible, we cannot overlook the anemic nature of the agreement considering the magnitude of the problem. It will not avoid the death of millions – because they simply do not matter.” (Pulido, 2018, p. 128)
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Ernstson and Swyngedouw (2019) termed the depoliticizing technocratic discourse that coexists with obscene capitalist accumulation and waste as the Anthropo-obscene (critiquing the totalizing banner of Anthropocene that homogenizes an undifferentiated humanity that does not exist).
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A performance of diversion, delay, co-optation, and performativity without substance is repeated almost annually. Nonetheless, these are also spaces of opportunities to challenge the system, to utter necessary words for more people to hear, collectivize among young and old activists, learn from different positionalities, create new openings and possibilities of alliances – in other words, a repoliticization of climate instead of the depoliticized techno-economist utopias that never deliver.
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আমরা কোথায় যাব, আমাদের কি ভবিষ্যৎ? আমরাকি হত্তছারা, পরিত্যক্ত? (Where will my people go, what future do we have? Must we remain abandoned, forsaken?) The disproportionate burden of climate damage is falling on formerly colonized and brutalized racialized communities in the developing world. We are still colonized, but this time through climate change, the development industry, and globalization. I feel an immense responsibility to do something. But no one is going to listen to someone like me, and even more importantly, more marginalized peoples, women and children, farmers and fisherfolk, writers and scholars. But we are all expected to be resilient because we have no choice.
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Climate coloniality is perpetuated through global land and water grabs, REDD+ programs, neoliberal conservations projects, rare earth mineral mining, deforestation for growth, fossil fuel warfare, and new green revolutions for agriculture – which benefit a few while dispossessing larger numbers of historically-impoverished, often elsewhere.
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I stop now, there is too much truth. You should read the article anyway :ecoanarchism_heart:
#ClimateChange #DeColonization #AntiColonization #ClimateJustice #ClimateColonialism #ClimateColoniality #EnvironmentalJustice #Capitalism #NeoColonialism #Racism #Cop26 #Cop27 #ScholarActivism #IndigenousScholars -
Bracing read from filmmaker Josh Fox on the fight to save the lungs of the Earth from the madness of extracting oil, and the Indigenous people on the front lines.
This fight belongs to all of us.
#ClimateChange #rainforest #Achuar #BigOil #extraction #democracy #AmazonRainforest #justice #colonialism #ClimateColonialism
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We started discussing readings and media for Session 3 that provide an overview of #ClimateJustice and #ClimateColonialism. You can access the list with embedded links at the course web site:
🌿 https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/climateeducation/readings?authuser=0#h.w1n3btdsyn2mWe are grateful to learn from Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, Dr. @farhanasultana, Dr. Kyle Whyte, Abrahm Lustgarten, and Dr. Olúfémi Táíwò.
Our discussion of these readings continue into Session 4 of class.
