Dear White Environmentalists: Demanding Fossil-fuel Phaseout Is Not Enough

COP28 is swirling around the debate about whether to ‘phase down’ or ‘phase out’ fossil fuels. But “the blanket demand to eliminate fossil fuels is widely perceived across the developing world as an ill-conceived and self-serving colonial narrative promoted by Western interests.” Nafeez argues that “instead of focusing on dismantling the incumbent system, we need to focus on accelerating the deployment of the new system that will replace it…because that’s the only way that demand for oil and gas can be eliminated.” This may account for some of PE’s findings above.