Lots of people talking about how climate change from fossil fuel emissions lead to the disasterous flooding in #Libya.
Not enough talking about the fossil fuel industry's other hand in the disaster: oil colonialism.
Libya is a petrostate, created and sponsored by foreign interests, with an economy is based in oil extraction. The political unrest and lack of ability to properly manage the dam infrastructure is a consequence of oil-based dictatorship and domestic fights over oil wealth.
Alex Wild /
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2023-09-14 19:19:16
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