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Europe greenwashing with north Africa’s renewable energy, report says (www.theguardian.com)

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“The global north must take responsibility for reducing its own consumption and building domestic renewable capacity, instead of externalising socio-environmental costs to the global south. We must continue to fight to decolonise and transform the global financial architecture.”

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I agree that capitalism needs to be criticized and neo-colonialism as well, but not under the guise of ecology. You can transition out of fossils while remaining in capitalism, you can get out of capitalism without getting out of fossils. These problems are important but perpendicular.

I would not expect, nor need from these people to talk about the benefits of wind turbines.

Why not? In the countryside I used to live in, I had the same person ask me to sign a petition against nuclear power plants and 3 weeks later against a solar farm project that would cut down trees. That militant activist was not aware of the amount of fossils that was going into the local electricity mix. She was genuinely surprised when I showed her that she is actively lobbying against a transition out of fossil fuels.

Locals are not dumber than centralized powers but they are not smarter either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I dunno, perhaps read again the example I mentioned?