posted on 2024-09-05, 21:46authored byPeter Newell, Mohamed Adow
This article considers the role of activism and politics to
restrict the supply of fossil fuels as a key means to prevent further
climate injustices. We firstly explore the historical production
of climate injustice through extractive economies of colonial
control, the accumulation of climate debts, and ongoing
patterns of uneven exchange. We develop an account which
highlights the relationship between the production, exchange,
and consumption of fossil fuels and historical and contemporary
inequalities around race, class, and gender which need to be
addressed if a meaningful account of climate justice is to take
root. We then explore the role of resistance to the expansion
of fossil-fuel frontiers and campaigns to leave fossil fuels in the
ground with which we are involved. We reflect on their potential
role in enabling the power shifts necessary to rebalance energy
economies and disrupt incumbent actors as a prerequisite to the
achievement of climate justice
Funding
Default funder
History
Publisher
Institute of Development Studies
Citation
Newell, P. and Adow, M. (2021) 'Cutting the Supply of Climate Injustice', IDS Bulletin, Online First, DOI: 10.19088/1968-2021.129