Our Burning Planet: No Tomorrow, Part One: Gwede Mantashe, climate suicide & the ANC’s 2019 election manifesto By Kevin Bloom kevbloom
of Aninka Claassens, among the country’s foremost experts on the land rights of mining-affected communities, there are clauses in the relevant legislation that entitle the state to expropriate land where “it is in the interests of economic transformation to do so”.
Sure, without mentioning the climate specifically, the manifesto does place a heavy emphasis on renewable energy. Somehow, though, the numbers are out of whack here too. Climate Action Tracker maythe plan is adopted it will “mark a major shift in energy policy”, but to meet its Paris commitments, the
As for our other natural resources, every institution of influence in the country – including the major opposition parties, the big banks and the mainstream media – remains as committed as ever to their extraction, so the ANC is hardly out on a limb with its election promise of reviving the mining sector.
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