Grassroots Special Section: 'Colonialities of climate change and action' edited by Martina Hasenfratz, Benno Fladvad, Laura Gutierrez Escobar, Diego Silva
Author: Franziska Müller orcid logo (University of Hamburg & University of Kassel)
https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/id/5659/
#VultureCapitalism #WhiteFaceBlackFuel #PetroDollarDebt: financial institutions like the #WorldBank and #IMF have been financing and pushing the destructive Vaca Muerta #fracking megaproject in the region. large-scale project has devastated the #Indigenous #Mapuche communities of the #Patagonian region
#TragedyOfEnclosure
#ClimateChaos #FossilFuelDebtTrap #FinancingCarbonBombs #KleptoPetroDollars #EnergyColonialism #BadFaithClimateFinance
Imperial Power Grid: The Role of Energy in Russia’s Colonial Expansion #energycolonialism
Mark Cinkevich and Anna Engelhardt
The calculus of imperial expansion often contradicts conventional cost-benefit analysis. Using the example of Belarus and Russia, Mark Cinkevich and Anna Engelhardt in their contribution to the BG text series “After Extractivism” show: Apparently irrational economic activity, for which no price is too high and no ecological damage too severe, nevertheless follows a politico-economic rationality.