THEA RIOFRANCOS on Planetary Perspectives of Green Energy /250

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🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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When we hear about the Green New Deal, it is almost always in context to policy and business within the United States. The urgent push for an energy transition away from fossil fuels often obscures the reality of extractive frontiers and the supply chains that green energy necessitates. This week, we slow down and explore the structures behind “our” energy systems, what a Green New Deal means for “resource-rich” countries in the Global South, and what a globally accountable Green New Deal could look like with guest Thea Riofrancos. As we explore what a renewable energy transition looks like from the so-called peripheries of extraction, Thea guides us to think about the relationship between solidarity and consumption, collectivity, and the vital importance of pushing for policy, systems, and organizations that empower public services, forms of sharing, and economies of care. Thea Riofrancos is an assistant professor of political science at Providence College, an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, and a Radcliffe Institute Fellow. Her research focuses on resource extraction, renewable energy, climate change, green technology, social movements, and the left in Latin America. These themes are explored in her book, Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador and her co-authored book, A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal.Music by 40 Million Feet, Mitski, and Alexa Wildish. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.Support the show

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1:15.7	Hello and welcome to For the Wild Podcast. I'm Iyana Young.
1:26.5	Today I'm speaking with Thea Ria Frankos.
1:29.8	One of the most valiant things are aspects of past struggles for more equality,
1:35.9	for, you know, feminist struggles, civil rights struggles, labor struggles,
1:39.5	like the struggles that predated us is that their participants wouldn't always be around.
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