"If global energy use is reduced enough to ensure climate safety, but the extent of energy inequality remains as it is today, more than 4 billion people will not have access to decent living energy."
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(23)00004-9/fulltext
The fight against the climate and ecological breakdown and the fight to reduce inequality are two sides of the same coin.
Every climate policy that ignores #inequality needs to be challenged to break free of #EcoFascism.
@ttiurani bit of a conflict there. Western prosperity is powered by fossil fuels. If we do not expand fossil fuels, the rest of the world does not get that prosperity.
Solar and wind power is going to require a LOT of fossil fuels to widely deploy. And lithium mining for batteries is not exactly a humanitarian operation.
The way out of that dilemma is nuclear: IFRs and MSRs. Build a couple of each, see which one works better in the real world, and then go for it. Both can burn up nuclear waste
«The energy use of the top 1% in the Global South is around 35 times that of the bottom 10%, whereas in the Global North the energy use is around 12 times higher and in the UK it is around six times higher»
YLE reported that people in affluent neighbourhoods consume 10 times more energy.
Interesting question on «energy inequality to be largely decoupled from income inequality»: taxation can't be ignored.
Overall this is in line with what even the IMF says:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484388570.071