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Emma Jayne, “Electrification Will Not Stop Climate Change. It Will Displace Thousands of Indigenous People,” Medium, 22 April 2021,
This concise article on Medium by Dr. Emma Jayne articulates how a neoliberal future grounded in so-called “green” energies neglects to consider how these technologies will impact Indigenous peoples around the world. For example, lithium technology—key to the workings of electric cars and solar panels—comes at the expense of Indigenous communities in northern Chile. Confronting climate change must not be an excuse to justify ethnocide and genocide of Indigenous communities around the world. Instead, we must all look towards projects of decolonization that operate in site-specific ways and center Indigenous voices.
A painted image of an electric car marks a charging space. Image from Unsplash: Images for Everyone