Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - Hamza Hamouchene: Rising up to true climate justice

Hamza Hamouchene: Rising up to true climate justice

03/21/24 • 43 min

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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

Why is the North Africa and Middle East region so vital to center in discourses on climate justice? How does the current global energy transition reinforce colonial, extractivist power dynamics? And what is the meaning of “eco-normalization” in the context of the Arab world?

Join us in this episode as Algerian researcher and activist Hamza Hamouchene dissects crucial narratives surrounding the notion of “green energy colonialism.” Posing critical questions about the current beneficiaries of renewable energy projects, Hamouchene offers thought-provoking perspectives that empower listeners to unpack the systemic injustices of “green colonialism.”

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