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Aashis Joshi

@aashisjo

Jun 2, 2024 • 9 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X

The ruling class of the West & Global North knows that food & resource scarcities & unlivable conditions leading to mass migrations & geopolitical turmoil are inevitable & imminent. They know full well that there is no way...

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... to address climate & ecological breakdown & live with their consequences in a fair way that doesn’t involve redressing global power imbalances, i.e. without ending their economic & geopolitical hegemony.

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As they have no intention to carry out real climate & ecological action, they hold climate conferences & peddle techno-consumerist greenwashing “solutions” to buy time to divert resources towards systems that help strengthen their imperial hegemony. It's all distraction.

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In a world woefully unprepared for the biosphere breakdown that’s just getting started, they are investing in their military & armed forces to control lands & resources abroad & their public at home.

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They are fortifying their borders & developing advanced technologies & methods of surveillance, terror & deadly violence including AI & drones, which they are currently testing on the people of Palestine.

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Their media, academic & cultural institutions are actively complicit in their imperialist agenda, helping run their propaganda to normalize colonialist & fascist atrocities & enforce a performative democracy where...

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... people protesting genocide & ecocide are brutalized & criminalized but universities have research & financial ties with weapons manufacturers & fossil fuel & other ecocidal corporations.

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They will go to great lengths & cross many red lines to quash the global public’s potential to strive for a better, kinder system than the extractivist capitalist empire they helm, which lies at the root of our accelerating social-ecological polycrisis.

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They have abandoned global cooperation on the climate, biodiversity & human rights & committed themselves to the vicious & insane vision of maintaining their imperialist, white supremacist domination at all cost instead.

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Aashis Joshi

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May 15

You often see renewable energy researchers and analysts claim that an energy transition to “green” renewable energy will massively reduce the need for material extraction compared with fossil fuels.

If you think this is too good to be true, it’s because it is. It’s a lie.

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Their claim is that “greening” our energy infrastructure would require increasing critical minerals and metals (e.g. Cu, Li, Co, Ni) extraction from 7 million tons a year today to 28 million by 2040. But this rise would be compensated for by much reduced fossil fuel demand.

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You see, we extract 15 billion tons of coal, oil, and natural gas each year — that's a lot. If we can eliminate the need for 15 billion tons of materials by substituting it with 28 million tons of other materials, then that would lead to a 500 times reduction in extraction.

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Aashis Joshi

@aashisjo

Mar 10

I call upon Global South scholars and researchers to reconsider our presence in Western academia.

By now it is abundantly clear that Western institutions including universities are fully committed to maintaining the West's imperialist domination over the world at any cost.

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In this light, I increasingly wonder whether we Global South scholars are helping legitimize Western institutions and their “superiority” (consider the impression that world university rankings give, for example) by participating in them.

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Yes, Western universities and research institutes hire some of us and give us some resources and opportunities to critically study and challenge Western ideologies and systems, which we do not often get in our own colonially-exploited and impoverished nations.

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Aashis Joshi

@aashisjo

Oct 1, 2024

“I wish a Gandhi would emerge from the Palestinian people & inspire a peaceful liberation movement.”

I’ve heard such a statement from Western colleagues a couple of times. Each time, I’ve asked, “Why is the burden to produce such a figure always on the colonized?”

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The people who made such statements are from a European nation that got rich off imperial violence & plunder & which supports Israel’s genocide of Palestinians today. What worldview leads them to fantasize about the colonized producing messiahs of peace to save themselves?

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I find it quite appalling. To me it shows that many people in the academic & research institutions of the imperial core think that the resistance of the colonized against the vicious, violent Western empire may be considered legitimate only if done with “peace & love”.

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Aashis Joshi

@aashisjo

Sep 17, 2024

I urge degrowth & other climate action researchers to keep in mind that all extraction adds damages to people & ecosystems somewhere, & challenge them to rise above techno-modernist ideology to envision radical alternative ways of organizing our lives & societies.

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Before advocating for each household to have appliances & gadgets that have only proliferated in recent decades, please think of how we could greatly reduce our dependence on such technologies.

Here are two low-tech alternatives for the basic tasks of washing & cooking.

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Washing clothes by hand is a chore, oftentimes a lonely one. But it needn’t be. We could have communal washing facilities in each neighborhood where people can plan to come in groups to do their laundry together...

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Aashis Joshi

@aashisjo

Sep 9, 2024

When I criticize modernity I think in terms of the material and energy flows and the distribution of the harms and risks involved in sustaining it, especially when it comes to technologies and systems whose proliferation has coincided with...

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... the acceleration of extraction and ecocide in recent decades.

With 8 billion people, sustaining our techno-modernity even at a smaller scale still keeps adding extractive damages to ecosystems and people.

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We’ve normalized modernity and its myths and absurdities built upon great injustices, e.g. nation-states, technological “development”, economic growth, etc.

It’s an easy step from this to normalizing ecocides, genocides, fascism, and all sorts of unacceptable things.

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Aashis Joshi

@aashisjo

Aug 5, 2024

Yesterday I came across a piece that inadvertently exposes the claim that the “green” energy transition will entail less material extraction than fossil fuels as a blatant lie.

It’s by none other than the capitalist techno-solutionist @_HannahRitchie from @OurWorldInData.

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As we’d expect, she is trying to reassure her readers that the large-scale renewable energy transition she advocates for will need less mining than fossil fuels, even after adjusting for the amount of rock that needs to be processed to obtain metals & minerals.

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She claims the transition will require less materials than the 15Gt (billion tons) of fossil fuels we extract each year.

However, the data she presents shows the opposite – that the push towards “low carbon” technologies will increase our materials consumption substantially.

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