Green solutions including electric cars, renewable energy and the rewilding of vast tracts of land are being implemented at the expense of racially and ethnically marginalised groups and Indigenous peoples.
Green solutions including electric cars, renewable energy and the rewilding of vast tracts of land are being implemented at the expense of racially and ethnically marginalised groups and Indigenous peoples.
I don’t get the connection between green economy and racism, is a more efficient washing machine creating racism if compared to an old one? They also mention minerals used: is it creating more racism than diamonds extraction in africa or oil extraction in lands which previously were property of indian people? It makes no sense to me
It may not be worse than what they do in mining diamonds and other stuff, but it’s racism and therefore bad enough I would say.
My interpretation is that there has historically been a process where wealthier people - often white - move their dirty processes like mining and manufacturing to poorer areas that frequently have majority BIPOC people. This happens both internally to countries and between countries. As we change around our economy to address climate change, she wants leaders to be mindful of not creating this same structural racism again in a new form.
The idea is to move to much simpler elements like salt or aluminum: for sure we’re not going to store energy in clay bricks, so some mining will be needed anyway. I think those countries should solve their problem whatever mining is in progress, but I know a lot of money is involved together with the worst powerful humans you can think of. If you keep burning oil to move your body around the world you both keep current injustices and create earth problems.