as an environmental engineering major in college (for the sake of reasons so similar to yours) i too am often paralyzed with the knowledge that despite all our attempts to implement renewables with greenwashing / clean finance / green investments, the energy demand also skyrockets, so does oil, and of course, the sacrificial lambs for even “clean” energy toil away, exhausted, exploited, extracted: the congolese. thank you for writing such an eloquent piece on this issue. it’s reminded me of the patterns of history, how the railroads were built off the backs of exploited coolie workers, and the patterns of violent resource extraction. in this process of electric-specific modernization, despite all knowing better, i’m wondering whether progress will ever go a different way.
awesome piece!!!! so excited to read about climate tech on reboot
as an environmental engineering major in college (for the sake of reasons so similar to yours) i too am often paralyzed with the knowledge that despite all our attempts to implement renewables with greenwashing / clean finance / green investments, the energy demand also skyrockets, so does oil, and of course, the sacrificial lambs for even “clean” energy toil away, exhausted, exploited, extracted: the congolese. thank you for writing such an eloquent piece on this issue. it’s reminded me of the patterns of history, how the railroads were built off the backs of exploited coolie workers, and the patterns of violent resource extraction. in this process of electric-specific modernization, despite all knowing better, i’m wondering whether progress will ever go a different way.