TotalEnergies: Who really benefits from regulating environmental NGOs in South Africa?
Silencing civil society’s voice threatens the country’s democracy — and the General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill could be misused to do just this
Hypocrisy of ‘developed’ world enables African leaders to insist on right to exploit fossil fuels
Yet evidence shows that countries with an abundance of natural resources have lower levels of inclusive economic development and growth
The lie of limitless economic progress
We need alternatives because unrestrained development is not compatible with life
We don’t have to ‘sell nature to save it’
Although South Africa no longer practices ‘fortress conservation’, the shift to to protecting resources for people is criticised for incorporating nature in a neoliberal capitalist system in which nature is expected to produce profit