Abandon All Hope: Dire Times for Europe

(Antonio Turiel) The European Union has no resources to contribute, and it does have a high level of consumption that is of no benefit to the USA. So for the USA, in a cynical way, the best thing to do is to let Europe get poorer.

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Grassroots Special Section: 'Colonialities of climate change and action' edited by Martina Hasenfratz, Benno Fladvad, Laura Gutierrez Escobar, Diego Silva

#Energycolonialism

Author: Franziska Müller orcid logo (University of Hamburg & University of Kassel)

https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/id/5659/

New report shows that Global North-imposed debt is locking the Global South into fossil fuels

Unjust Global North-imposed debt is locking the Global South into climate-wrecking fossil fuels and hindering the green energy transition.

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Imperial Power Grid: The Role of Energy in Russia’s Colonial Expansion #energycolonialism

Mark Cinkevich and Anna Engelhardt

https://blogs.mediapart.fr/berliner-gazette/blog/080422/imperial-power-grid-role-energy-russia-s-colonial-expansion

Imperial Power Grid: The Role of Energy in Russia’s Colonial Expansion

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.

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