While these projects can bring economic benefits to the region, they also pose significant environmental and social risks such as land conflicts, ecosystem degradation, and unequal distribution of benefits and costs.
– such as the central United States – where locals don’t necessarily want them and often pose a considerable threat to fragile local ecosystems.
In Europe, where land is already at a deficit, clean energy developers are looking to less populated areas in North Africa for their biggest and most ambitious plans. Not only is there more undeveloped land, but the arid and sunny climate of North Africa also lends itself to solar energy generation, with panels generating up to three times more powerful than those installed in Europe. This energy can then be piped back to the European continent via massive submarine intercontinental cables.
While there are some obvious benefits to this semi-symbiotic relationship – Europe needs energy, and North Africa needs economic stimulus – there are also some very serious drawbacks with familiarly imperial undercurrents. For one thing, as much as Northern Africa needs investment and industry to buoy its economy, it also desperately needs energy.
. It also means that there will inevitably be major disturbances to the flora, fauna, and human populations where these solar and wind farms are constructed. And these developments will likely take place “with minimal community consultation or ecological assessment,” warns Yale. While Saharan Africa is often portrayed as an empty and desolate place, this is far from the truth.
It is inevitable that the green energy transition will bear major trade-offs. It is an economic and industrial undertaking of unprecedented proportions and lots of uncertain and unpredictable outcomes. Compromises, as well as sacrifices, will be inevitable for the greater good of combating catastrophic climate change. But it’s nevertheless essential to question the ethics of who is bearing the brunt of these sacrifices and why, as well as how these trade-offs can be mitigated and minimized.
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