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Been worrying about the #ecoapartheid logic of public-private partnerships for climate infrastructure for a long time. If Warren’s plan is ultimately all about leveraging private investment, we need details
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There are two big issues here
1/ PPP normally means public risk, private reward. It also surrenders operational control to private firms. Do we really want to give Haliburton-type companies rebuilding the US built environment?
1/ PPP normally means public risk, private reward. It also surrenders operational control to private firms. Do we really want to give Haliburton-type companies rebuilding the US built environment?
2/ What’s the upside for private sector? Wrt climate infra, PPP means high expected revenues. We need to fix sewage systems, restore wetlands, manage retreat from vulnerable places, build new transmission + green housing, replant forests, etc. Profit motive a grim logic for that
I have 2 essays about #ecoapartheid in Brazil this week. 1st is about Bolsonaro’s menace to Amazon (& most Brazilians), esp the insidious threat of low-carbon #ecoapartheid, where fumbling climate progress and racial violence go together dissentmagazine.org/online_article… Thread 1/
Then there’s this piece about São Paulo’s historic drought, which could return. I push back against the optimism that lots of progressives have that climate disasters will solve their problems by teaching ppl a lesson. Don't believe it ijurr.org/spotlight-on-o… 2/
Really excited that this water piece is in a @ijurrresearch "Parched Cities" collection, also feat. the brilliant @liquidperson, @maliniranga, @suraya_scheba, @nate_millington, Megan Peloso, @disrumpere, Leila M. Harris. Edited by @lizaweinstein ijurr.org/spotlight-on-o… 3/
