{"id":63719,"date":"2022-10-07T06:38:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T11:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63719"},"modified":"2022-10-07T06:38:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T11:38:21","slug":"the-green-transition-part-1-the-problem-with-green-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63719","title":{"rendered":"The Green Transition Part 1: The Problem with Green Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Green Transition Part 1: The Problem with Green Capitalism<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n
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It\u2019s clear that we need to decarbonize our economy as quickly as possible in order to avoid the worst of climate change \u2014 but carbon isn\u2019t the only problem we\u2019re facing. As the world moves towards renewables and away from fossil fuels as an energy source, we can\u2019t forget that the technology and minerals behind this green transition need to come from somewhere \u2014 and that somewhere is primarily countries in the Global South.<\/p>\n

The supply chains which carry the lithium, copper, cobalt, and other minerals essential for renewable technology from the peripheries to the imperial cores \u2014 from places like Chile and Bolivia to places like the United States and Europe \u2014 are built upon a foundation of colonialism, imperialism, hyper-exploitation, and ecocide: all essential components of our current economic system \u2014\u00a0 capitalism.<\/p>\n

In part one of this two-part series on the green transition,\u00a0Upstream<\/a>\u00a0explores what happens when we simply paint capitalism green without addressing its fundamental global operating principles and processes. What is the dark side of the energy transition \u2014 particularly for the Global South and Indigenous communities?<\/p>\n

In part two they will dive deeper into some solutions, but in this episode,\u00a0Upstream<\/a>\u00a0starts their journey in the Atacama desert of Chile and ends all the way in the Arctic Circle, exploring the global extractive machine and the communities that exist on its frontiers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

You can listen to the full\u00a0Upstream Documentary<\/a>\u00a0below to dive deeper into this topic.<\/p>\n