NEW STATESMAN: Switching off Russian gas could put the planet on the road to a green economy

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Period9 Mar 2022

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  • TitleSwitching off Russian gas could put the planet on the road to a green economy
    Media name/outletNew Statesman
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date9/03/22
    DescriptionClimate change alone has struggled to transform the status quo, but arguments around energy security and energy poverty could push governments to embrace climate action. “Tapping into the desire of Nato leaders to protect and defend people in the face of interconnected threats to planetary security – or at the very least to energy security – could lead to more rapid responses than have been achieved by environmentalist appeals to ‘listen to the science’,” says Sherilyn MacGregor of Manchester University. She takes a feminist view, arguing that Putin’s invasion exposes interconnections between authoritarianism, militarism and “petro-masculinity”, which all “drive climate change and its denial”.
    URLhttps://www.newstatesman.com/environment/2022/03/switching-off-russian-gas-could-put-the-planet-on-the-road-to-a-green-economy
    PersonsSherilyn MacGregor
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Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

  • Energy
  • Global inequalities

Keywords

  • energy
  • inequality
  • Russia-Ukraine war