ENERGY
Human Cost of Super"power"

Energy insecurity begets social and political insecurity

Across continents, the drive for minerals and the hunger for “clean” power are displacing indigenous communities whose rights are quietly absorbed into the language of national necessity.

If China’s model [repressive at home and ruthlessly self-serving abroad] becomes the world’s model, it will teach others that super"power" ambition justifies any act of extraction. Energy insecurity begets social and political insecurity.

The story of energy transition must not forget the people whose ground makes it possible. Otherwise, we are merely replacing one kind of exploitation with another, and calling it green. ∎