Why Renewables Won’t End Environmental Destruction

Colonialism used renewables to rape the Earth in the first place

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The first corporate AI like the VoC used ‘sustainable’ technology like wind and solar exclusively. “A senior merchant of the Dutch East India Company, presumably Jacob Mathieusen.”

Colonialism began with renewable energy. Wind to sail across the world, solar to grow cash crops, and human blood, sweat, and tears to grow them. For the violent and resource-poor tribes of Europe, ‘blood for oil’ began as ‘blood for sun’. Vile companies like the VoC (the…

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Indrajit (Indi) Samarajiva is a Sri Lankan writer. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.