colonialism – Energy Transition https://energytransition.org The Global Energiewende Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:25:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Russia’s war does not require returning to energy colonialism in Colombia https://energytransition.org/2022/10/russias-war-does-not-require-returning-to-energy-colonialism-in-colombia/ https://energytransition.org/2022/10/russias-war-does-not-require-returning-to-energy-colonialism-in-colombia/#respond Tue, 18 Oct 2022 10:00:12 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=27491 Elected to Germany’s Bundestag a year ago, Kathrin Henneberger entered Parliament on a clear mandate from Green Party voters to accelerate coal’s domestic phase out and speed up the energy transition. But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has changed the narrative. When word leaked that, despite well-known human rights violations in Colombia, Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz had personally called then...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/10/russias-war-does-not-require-returning-to-energy-colonialism-in-colombia/feed/ 0 Universal basic income: the answer to a post-carbon South Africa https://energytransition.org/2021/12/universal-basic-income-the-answer-to-a-post-carbon-south-africa/ https://energytransition.org/2021/12/universal-basic-income-the-answer-to-a-post-carbon-south-africa/#respond Tue, 07 Dec 2021 10:00:46 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=25461 When South Africa emerged from the most severe of the COVID lockdowns in 2020, nearly one in three employable adults was jobless. The country’s escalating unemployment is a symptom of an unequal economy inherited from generations of colonial- and apartheid-era exploitation. Could a universal basic income be the answer to a more equitable post-carbon world? Leonie Joubert investigates.

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2021/12/universal-basic-income-the-answer-to-a-post-carbon-south-africa/feed/ 0 Social media: an existential threat to Africa in a climate-altered future? https://energytransition.org/2020/11/social-media-an-existential-threat-to-africa-in-a-climate-altered-future/ https://energytransition.org/2020/11/social-media-an-existential-threat-to-africa-in-a-climate-altered-future/#respond Thu, 26 Nov 2020 14:00:17 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=23491 News media is a load-bearing wall in a healthy democracy. It informs the public discourse, shapes citizens’ active participation in day-to-day governance, and holds elected officials to account. The rise of social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter in the past decade shows what happens when this new media ecosystem replaces traditional news as a primary source of information — and...

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