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Jason Hickel

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Obscene but not surprising. European elites have basically found a way to do with renewable energy exactly what they have so long done with fossil fuels: capture the benefits for themselves while externalizing the consequences to others whose suffering can remain unseen.

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And whoever thinks that this is a "development strategy" for the global South is deceiving themselves. It's a drain of resources and productive capacity. States will do it only because they are compelled to do so by debts or other dependencies on foreign currency, which can and should be reduced.

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