What is a Just Transition?
www.break-down.org
As the idea of the "just transition" has become mainstream, it has increasingly been co-opted. We need a transition away from both fossil fuels and from the extractive systems harming both people and planet.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/705434

“What makes a transition just is far from a given […] For an energy transition to be just, injustice must be eliminated, not merely displaced.”

“For instance, a major scaling up of solar panel production with exploited labour or outsized damage to particular communities and ecosystems does not represent a just transition.”

“Similarly, decarbonising energy systems in the Global North while the Global South remains underdeveloped is not a just transition. Rather, the project of advancing a just transition is transformational – moving from a world built around extraction to one built around regeneration and care, and a future where people can thrive in a world that is more just overall.”

  • Visikde@beehaw.org
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    4 months ago

    We aren’t going to solve a crisis of excess consumption, with slightly different consumption
    Example:
    Replacing a 200hp ice vehicle with a 500hp electric vehicle isn’t more sustainable, less actually

    Extractive resources are greatly undervalued
    Socializing the costs & privatizing the profits is the root
    Example:
    Once you punch holes through the aquifer, there is no repairing the damage, just temporary solutions that last decades not hundreds or thousands of years
    As long as we use whatever the market will bear valuation, disconnected from the true long term costs & value added, the results will continue to do little to solve the issues