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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.

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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
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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
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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
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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
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Who pays the biggest price?

11 September, 2014
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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
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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
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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
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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....

19 August, 2014
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Main sections

Good Energy Bad Energy – Introduction

Problems with the current energy system

Destructive energy sources

Who benefits, who pays?

The drivers and logic of the current energy system

Avoiding the climate trap

Towards a vision for a just, sustainable, climate-safe energy system

Creating a just and sustainable system

How to make change happen

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