Join London Mining Network’s event on Just Transition on Saturday November 30th! Learn and contribute to urgent discussions about why the much-needed shift to renewable energy is fuelling green imperialism. Hear from communities and campaigners on the frontlines of resistance to mining companies and the powerful state and military interests that support them. Meet and join leading movements to discuss how to bring a socially just transition into reality.
The world needs to decarbonise rapidly if we are to avert catastrophic climate breakdown. But what are the costs of an energy transition that simply substitutes mega solar power and wind turbine projects for fossil fuels? The “green” transition that states and corporate interests are pushing would mean huge increases in mineral mining, with devastating consequent harms to land, water, biodiversity and the millions of people who depend on these for their livelihood and homes.
Mining companies positioning themselves as saviours of the planet are often the same companies continuing to extract fossil fuels. They do not offer climate solutions but are instead complicit in intensified exploitation, displacement and dispossession of Indigenous communities and environmental destruction.
A globally just transition must break from a capitalist system predicated on eternal growth and accumulation, and account for the ecological and colonial debt between the Global North and South. Who should guide such a transition? Who decides how much mining is necessary and where it takes place? How do we build solidarity between communities on the frontlines of resistance to green imperialism and workers and anti-imperialist movements in the UK organising for justice?
Through workshops and creative activities, an interactive exhibition, and stalls with dozens of grassroots campaigns, we will explore these urgent questions.