by Spoiler | Mar 30, 2021 | Beginning
Coal is the world’s dirtiest source of energy, one of the world’s worst polluters, and a major contributor to the climate catastrophe. In addition, it requires the deforestation and conversion of large areas of land, leading to wildlife and biodiversity loss, while...
by Spoiler | Mar 30, 2021 | Beginning
“We’re all in the same boat, and it’s sinking”, you may have heard climate activists say. This metaphor is problematic for many reasons. Not least because it disregards that the ‘boat’ is indeed a large ship, with many different decks, and while champagne is...
by Spoiler | Mar 30, 2021 | Beginning, Sites of Devastation
Valentina Bekrinova, an indigenous Shor woman who lives in Russia, and Narlis Guzmán Angulo, an Afro-Colombian woman from Colombia, told us their stories for this book (see chapter five). The two women come from different countries and continents, and their struggles...
by Spoiler | Mar 30, 2021 | Sites of Devastation
Most European countries are relying heavily on coal imports to fuel their power stations. The coal travels long distances to be burnt in Europe, generating profits for European companies and cheap electricity for European consumers. As European coal industries have...
by Spoiler | Mar 30, 2021 | Sites of Devastation
No other country exports more coal to central Europe than Russia. Russia has only recently turned into a hard coal exporter. But the pace at which it has done so is frightening. Within ten years, the country has become the third largest exporter worldwide and...
