Opinion: In a sea of gloom, some potentially hopeful news. When the UN’s IPCC released its latest climate report this week, it included the word “colonialism” for the very first time. Decolonization has to be part of the solution, ShreeParadkar writes.
When the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its latest report this week, it included the word “colonialism” for the very first time.
“the most dangerous time in human history.” Why in such times does the inclusion of this one word warrant hope?on the inclusion of the word in Atmos magazine, wrote that the addition of the word “has tremendous potential for how world leaders shape future climate policy.”The final language in the summary is “meticulously scrutinized and discussed line by line — and not just by the world’s top scientists, but also by officials representing 195 governments,” Funes wrote.
On Tribune Magazine’s podcast “A World to Win,” Asad Rehman, director of London-based anti-poverty charity“The mindset is that some parts of the world and some people, overwhelmingly Black, brown, Indigenous or poor, can be sacrificed, and it’s this logic which underpins both the crisis of inequality, the pandemic and now the climate crisis.”Colonization and imperial expansions were and continue to be sold under the cover of saviourism.
But economist Vijaya Ramachandran, who has worked with the World Bank and the UN and is director for energy and development at the California-based“Everyone understands in the rich world, wind and solar alone are not going to power anybody out of poverty. Any project that relies on renewable energy has a fossil fuel back-up. You cannot power homes and schools purely with renewables.
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