EU’S GREEN IMPERIALISM: KEEPING AFRICA BACK?

Has the EU just sent a Trojan Horse to South Africa? An extra few billion dollars to roll out clean energy sounds brilliant. But Brussels’ recent ‘gift’ to Pretoria may be concealing a more cunning agenda. Europe, which has already had its ‘dirty’ Industrial Revolution, doesn’t want Africa to catch up and become a power house. So it dresses up its fears as concerns for the environment, pushing less reliable solar and wind solutions on us. Bear in mind that the Europeans currently pollute way more than Africans do - and there are far fewer of them, so their sins are greater. Yet apparently it’s Africa that’s got to clean up its act while they carry on cutting coal deals with countries they lecture about using… too much coal! African Stream’s William Sakawa explores the sham that is Brussels’ green conscience in his latest video.

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