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Problems with the current energy system
Energy and climate change
Climate change is already happening – wreaking devastation on communities and ecosystems around the world. Without urgent action to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, we face a far worse situation of runaway climate change, with impacts which would dramatically overshadow anything we are seeing today. Exceeding climate tipping points brings a near certainty of even greater hunger, drought, flooding, and temperature and weather extremes, as well as mass extinctions and the forced migration of billions of people, combined with the breakdown of social order and political systems in many places.
Examples of existing destructive renewables projects
Wind power in Oaxaca, Mexico Violence and death threats have been used against local indigenous community members resisting the...
11 September, 2014
Waste-to-energy incinerators in Uruguay
Uruguay has significant problems relating to the management of industrial, commercial and domestic waste. In the capital Montevideo alone,...
11 September, 2014
Oil palm plantations in Liberia
Expansion of palm oil production in Liberia by Malaysia-based industrial conglomerate Sime Darby is rapidly swallowing up farmlands and...
11 September, 2014
The hidroituango mega dam in Colombia
Thousands of people are resisting the construction of the Hidroituango mega dam in Antioquia in the northwest of Colombia,...
11 September, 2014
The struggle against fracking in the UK
Rising energy costs combined with austerity and declining real incomes means that a growing proportion of ordinary British households...
11 September, 2014
Australia’s Wandoan mega mine
In the mid 2000s the Australian economy entered into a mining exploration and export growth phase, involving a ten...
11 September, 2014
Destructive impacts of energy sources
The different energy sources on which the current system is primarily reliant are also extremely harmful and destructive in...
11 September, 2014
Problems with the current energy system
Energy and climate change Climate change is already happening – wreaking devastation on communities and ecosystems around the world....
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