by onestruggle | Mar 30, 2021 | Beginning
By the time a lump of coal arrives in a European coal-fired power station it has travelled a long way. It has been on this planet for so long that it was already old when the dinosaurs appeared. Right now, that lump of coal is sitting in the coal bunker of the German...
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...
