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A Just(ice) Transition is a Post-Extractive Transition: Centering the Extractive Frontier in Climate Justice
By Benjamin Hitchcock Auciello - War on Want and London Mining Network, September 2019
While the global majority disproportionately suffer the impacts of the climate crisis and the extractivist model, theGlobal North’s legacy of colonialism, the excess of the world’s wealthiest, and the power of large corporations are responsible for these interrelated crises.
The climate change mitigation commitments thus far made by countries in the Global North are wholly insufficient; not only in terms of emissions reductions, but in their failure to address the root causes of the crisis – systemic and intersecting inequalities and injustices. This failure to take inequality and injustice seriously can be seen in even the most ambitious models of climate mitigation.
This report sets out to explore the social and ecological implications of those models.
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