Profiteers must Profit
Scratch the surface of the current plans to decarbonise the economy and replace it with renewable energies and beneath it lays the same logic that has made the UK the 6th richest country in the world. Britain is planning to go green through a new phase of resource and wealth extraction of countries in the global south. At the heart of our economic system fueled by the City of London is a belief that the UK and other rich countries are entitled to a greater share of the world’s finite resources irrespective of who we impoverish in doing so, or the destruction we cause.
This green colonialism will be delivered by the very same
entrenched economic interests, who have willingly sacrificed both people
and the climate in the pursuit of profit. But this time, the mining
giants and dirty energy companies will be waving the flag of climate
emergency to justify the same deathly business model. In this new energy revolution, it is cobalt, lithium, silver and
copper that will replace oil, gas and coal as the new frontline of our
corporate destruction. The metals and minerals needed to build our wind
turbines, our solar panels and electric batteries will be ripped out of
the earth so that the UK continues to enjoy “lifeboat ethics”: temporary
sustainability to save us, but at the cost of the poor. -- Asad Rehman
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