By Ajibola Adedoye
“The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism”, a book that focuses on Global Justice and Ecosocial Transitions has been launched by Health of Mother Earth Foundation( HOMEF) on Saturday, June 22, 2024.
Nnimmo Bassey, Director HOMEF, in his comment noted that the book isn’t meant to meant to be kept on the bookshelf but to be read because the issues bandied in the book are contemporary issues.
He said “As the world is moving from dirty energy to green energy, there’s this belief that once that transition happens also justice has been served, but as people say, transition is ineluctable but justice has to be fought for.
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“This is a product of numerous benefactions, it’s a collection of essays all tied up on the same content. The issue of green colonialism is commodity we need to lay close attention to, flash back Kwame Nkurumah said’neo-Colonialism is the last stage of imperialism’ and we do know that imperialism is still alive and the green colonialism is grabbing the world especially the global South. So, this book is substantially penned to concentrate on the global South and part of the global North who are veritably important integrated in the struggle to change the system”.
In his submission, Breno Bringel, a Brazilian Professor of Sociology at the State University of Rio de Janeiro and one of the three editors of the book epitomized the 259- runner material into three corridor.
He said “The first part talked about the impacts of pre colonialism in our countries, accentuate corridor of the destruction and the thesis behind green colonialism. It’s devoted to a notice of the profitable reality that reigns in real politics and policy moment, from different perspectives. The alternate part focuses on ecological damage and free trade in the reconfiguration of earth governance in the world moment. We also talk about, in the face of the sickie-social metamorphosis, what’s the part of the state? While the third part provides druthers and apologies that aren’t only a rhetorical but apologies in the homes in our communities.
Bingel noted that “The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism” have contributors from 60 countries similar as “Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Indonesia, Madagascar, Philippines. The US, Venezuela as well as From Nigeria, we’re veritably well represented by this strong voice, because we tried to put together a complimentary advice to join dissect how contemporary green capitalism in green communities affect us and how can we make druthers for our different realities?
In her reflections, Miriam Lang, a Professor of Environment and Sustainability at Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, Ecuador bared that “on the 20th of August 2023, the people of Ecuador came to a vote after at least 20 times where 60 of the population decided to leave the oil painting unexploited in the heart of the Amazon timber with biodiversity, so that was a veritably veritably important part to the decision makers against the narrative of profitable growth. So now we’re facing the challenge of removing some oil painting structure, which formerly had been planted in this region and also of reconsidering the whole frugality of the country towards extractive because we’ve also had several other country with consultations or blackballs against mining, which are one always with further than 80 of the vote”.
Lang who noted that despite all the challenges 70 of the food produced encyclopedically is from the smallholder growers also express her worriness because according to her “Mining conditioning venoms people and makes husbandry and other livelihoods insolvable, also sightseer frugality isn’t possible. So we’re now looking towards a discussion that tries to strengthen what we call food sovereignty. That’s like deciding what we want to plan what we want to eat and how we want to change that food and the seeds in our country” she noted.
Other contributing editors in the product of the masterpiece are Mary Ann Manahan, a scholar in the Philippines and Ibrahima Thiam, a Senegalese and Project Manager with Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.
Dignitaries at the event include Roland Ngam, Manager for Socio- Ecological Foundation in South Africa,Prof. Adelaja Odukoya from University of Lagos, Lanre Arogundade, Executive Director, International Press Centre, Betty Abah, Director, Cee-Hope Nigeria among others.
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