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A diferencia de otras ciudades fundadas por el imperio español en territorios previamente ocupados por pueblos indígenas, la ciudad de Mérida, Yucatán despliega con un orgullo inusual su herencia colonial y el racismo que esto conlleva.

– The documentary “Planet of the Humans” has shocked and awed progressive circles, generating an uproar among them. The film, however, reminds the audience that the distinction between so-called renewable energy and fossil fuels is false, writes Dunlap.

Radio interview with Alexander Dunlap about his article End the green delusions: industrial scale -renewable energy is fossil fuel plus.

– Despite its serious flaws, Jeff Gibbs’s documentary Planet of the Humans powerfully exposes how optimism for “renewable energy” transitions is misplaced, and how mainstream environmentalism is becoming a force for green capitalism, writes Dunlap.

– Pandemien får fram en ubehagelig sannhet: Dagens matproduksjon er basert på ødeleggelse av natur og grov utnyttelse av arbeidere, skriver Aguilar-Støen og Jakobsen.

Spanish title: México y el Planeta de los Humanos

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) place a strong focus on "rule of law" and "good governance" in achieving sustainable development. But in practice these strategies often result in the expansion of degrading socio-ecological development practices.

The latter depends heavily on the former for mining, processing, manufacturing, transport and, even, operation to various degrees. There is a series of  neglected socio-ecological impacts associated with so-called "renewable" and electric technologies, says Dunlap.

– I en verden som er tettere knyttet sammen, der mennesker og varer flyttes i et utrolig raskt tempo, er faren høy for at nye zoonotiske sykdommer kan utvikle seg til pandemier, skriver Aguilar-Støen og Jakobsen.

– Kanskje kan korona bane vei for et langt grønnere skifte enn det vi hittil har sett omrisset av. Et økologisk skifte for alle, og hvor den usynlige veven som samler oss, ikke lenger heter supply chains, men solidaritet.

I tirsdagens utgave av Pandemipodden snakket forsker Susanne Normann om hvordan en massiv eldredød vil ramme urfolk i Sør-Amerika særlig hardt.

The dream of a terra nullius, a place imagined as outside of societal constraints, law, and history has existed since the middle ages. But romanticizing the notion of a natural frontier can have deadly consequences for indigenous people.

The global proliferation of extraction and plantation economies continue to shape profoundly unequal exchanges of resources and labor and wreak havoc on rural economies, ecologies, and social relations. Yet, people at the receiving end of these transformations are not without agency.

The links between food production and zoonotic diseases, and the global spread of such diseases are shaped by complex social, political and economic relationships that cannot be fixed by simply closing down wet markets.

Resilience of inhabitants of the drought-plagued Brazilian Northeast region is improving. However, as access to water and food become less urgent, new vulnerabilities arise and become a potential source for political clientelism.

How does India’s new coal geography harness and reconfigure existing infrastructural arrangements to suit the needs of coal? In the second part of this series on India’s new coal geography, we examine this question in the context of Goa.

While India has become a hotspot for renewable energy investments, a new Indian coal geography has also emerged since the early 2000s. Its materialisation promises to lock India into continued reliance on coal for the foreseeable future, with a concomitant rise in carbon emissions. In part one of this two-part series, we look at the big picture of India’s new coal geography and its impact.

– Det er ikke bare Trump som må stilles til ansvar for situasjonen migrantene nå befinner seg i, sier Normann.

Human diets are rapidly meatifying. This involves complex rural transformations and changing food regimes, where Asian countries are taking centre stage.

Filosofen Byung-Chul Hans bok Pscychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power utforsker framvoksende former for kontroll og styring. Dette er kritisk teori for dagens teknologiske verdensorden.

Bernie’s Green New Deal (GND) is not a clear-cut green capitalist swindle. Instead, it is an impressive environmental policy vision that retains serious miscalculations that demand immediate consideration and redress.

Alexander Dunlap discusses his new book Renewing Destruction: Wind Energy Development, Conflict and Resistance in a Latin American Context.

Alexander Dunlap discusses the term fossil fuel + as a replacement for "renewable energy."

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I was thrilled to be back in my home city of Maracay at the beginning of this year when I went to Venezuela for fieldwork. It had been over 4 years since I had been in the country. During those four years –as the central bank statistics later confirmed – the economy had shrunk more than half, and millions of people had left the desperate conditions.