University of Sussex
Browse

Cutting the supply of climate injustice

Download (210.19 kB)
journal contribution
posted on 2024-10-29, 15:33 authored by Peter NewellPeter 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.

History

Publication status

  • Published

File Version

  • Published version

Journal

IDS Bulletin

ISSN

0265-5012

Publisher

Institute of Development Studies

Issue

4

Volume

53

Page range

31-46

Department affiliated with

  • International Relations Publications

Institution

University of Sussex

Full text available

  • Yes