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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

270) Guillaume Pitron: Unmasking 'green' energy's social injustice and environmental costs

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

Kaméa Chayne

Earth Sciences, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Guillaume Pitron is an award-winning journalist and documentary-maker for some of France’s leading TV channels. His first book, The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies, draws on six years of research to reveal our new dependence on rare metals.

In this podcast episode, Guillaume sheds light on why green and clean energy and technologies are not entirely green nor clean; what we can learn from the history of our energy infrastructure transitions; how moving to ‘green’ energy may actually worsen environmental injustice in some ways; and more.

 

Featured music: Politician Man by Adrian Sutherland & Midnight Shine

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The sooner we will be able to get rid of these two commodities, oil and coal, the better it will be. So we have to find another way of

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producing energy that will not actually produce CO2 emissions. But the thing is, green technologies

1:41.9

such as electric cars, such as solar panels, such as wind turbines,

1:47.5

these technologies don't come out of thin air.

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That was Guillaume Pitron, an award-winning journalist and documentary maker for some of France's

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