isaac: “Depending on green growth or green capitalism alone cannot guarantee a meaningful transition away from fossil fuels because fossil fuel extraction and use is, and will continue to be, extremely profitable.”

“Depending on green growth or green capitalism alone cannot guarantee a meaningful transition away from fossil fuels because fossil fuel extraction and use is, and will continue to be, extremely profitable.”

Ahead of my book release, I wrote a piece for the newly launched Break/ Down, which focuses on capitalism and the climate crisis. In it, I preview one of my main arguments on what a just transition does- and doesn’t- entail

What is a Just Transition?www.break-down.org As the idea of the

Been waiting to read this when I had a full minute to sit and give it the time it deserves! Feels right on time given the increasing anxiety about what the future balance of a climate transition looks like— will we get one at all? How do we fight for it with as many people, globally, as possible?

Some of the despair I read on here (which is carried over and inseparable from real life for climate activists and analysts of all types) is directly connected to the model of green transition they have come to believe is the one true and possible path. There are many paths.

“Hickel and Slameršak analysed current mitigation scenarios and found energy disparities between the Global North and Global South are persistent in all scenarios. In the most equitable scenario, the Global North is still assumed to use 40 per cent more energy than the Global South.”

These are all deeply inequitable, racist, colonial mitigation scenarios. We need to move on other paths that lead us towards a better future that the entire planet benefits from if we want the entire planet to actually support a transition.

Anyway you can ask your library to get @jmijin.bsky.social’s book and pick up a copy to circulate with your friends to figure out what you can be doing differently that moves us towards a just transition!! bookshop.org/p/books/a-ju...

A Just Transition for All: Workers and Communities for a Carbon-Free Future a book by J. Mijin Chabookshop.org Why the energy transition must be more than a fuel source replacement, and how we can seize the opportunity of the transition to build a more just future for all. To meet the greenhouse gas emissions ...

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