James Granelli

Africans want climate action, the digital age might be how they get it Citizens across Africa want climate action. New research shows that internet connectivity, which plugs people into novel media forms, can bridge the climate literacy gap and mobilise citizens to deman...

Africans want climate action, just like so many citizens around the world. #the89percent @coveringclimatenow.org @antonharber.bsky.social @phoebebarnard.bsky.social @dailymaverick.co.za

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

US funding cuts could cause over 150,000 extra HIV infections in SA by 2028 Experts say this can be avoided if the South African government covers some of the defunded services

The cancellation of PEPFAR funding to South Africa could cause between 150,000 and 295,000 additional HIV infections by the end of 2028, a new study shows.

Read groundup.org.za/article/us-f... by Jesse Copelyn

“Sharpeville is an iconic place in the history of South Africa. Our people’s blood flowed through these streets. Our Constitution was signed here but the people here don’t have their constitutional rights recognised. Isn’t that ironic?” resident Able Radebe told GroundUp."

Scientists’ warning on affluence - Nature Communications Current environmental impact mitigation neglects over-consumption from affluent citizens as a primary driver. The authors highlight the role of bottom-up movements to overcome structural economic...

Climate action means taxing the rich.

We must "strengthen equality and redistribution through suitable taxation policies, basic income and job guarantees and by setting maximum income levels, expanding public services and rolling back neoliberal reforms"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Donna Haraway, elder intellectual white woman, speaking before a tight group of people with save science signs amidst the redwoods at UCSC.

Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️

'Why destroy a working asset?' Battle launched to stop affordable housing on Cape Town golf course | News24 The battle to stop the City of Cape Town from using the King David Mowbray Golf Club for its proposed mixed-use affordable housing development has intensified.

🔒"It is important these spaces work for everyone, not just a privileged few. The redevelopment of the club is a reimagining of what public space can be in a city that continues to suffer from uneven distribution of green spaces and community facilities." www.news24.com/news24/south...

CZA fieldwork experience: James Granelli James Granelli, a masters student in the Critical Zones Africa project reflects on his ongoing fieldwork

Been in the field this past month for my research with the Critical Zones Africa project! I wrote a brief reflection on attending to dragonflies, litter, fynbos, sand, and people. #envhum #envhumsouth

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It’s NDC Deadline Day. Almost Nobody Is Prepared. On climate plans, Super Bowl ads, and hydrogen planes

185 countries, representing 83% of global emissions and almost 80% of the world’s economy, have missed the Paris Agreement deadline to submit new climate plans.

So obvious that it feels absurd to even engage with this, but some statistics re the extreme economic position of white South Africans, in one of the most unequal countries in the world:

Karoo Dust Bowl (Part I): Here come the dunes The recent years-long drought may have tipped parts of the Northern Cape towards an irreversible dust bowl, following decades of heavy grazing and mining. As Earth’s average temperature slips beyond 1...

Parts of SA tipping towards irreversible dust bowl, as heat and drought accelerate damage by decades of heavy grazing & mining, threatening conservation & livelihoods.
#climatecrisis #drought #extremeweather #desertification #climate #drylands #karoo

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

“… there’s a risk climate action will perpetuate the same structural imbalances that first enabled environmental exploitation. Only by tackling both climate injustice and economic inequality together can the world prevent further climate disasters and ensure a more equitable future.”

‘Cancel Coal’ case victory: Mantashe’s plans ruled unconstitutional In a landmark ruling that saw young environmental activists triumph, the high court has overturned the government’s plans to add 1,500MW of new coal-fired power to the national grid, saying they are ‘...

A Landmark #climatejustice ruling in SA 🇿🇦!
High court ruled no new coal power can be built as it violates constitutional rights to health and well being, particularly for the youth.
Read this comprehensive report by climate journalist Julia Evans
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024...

South Africa's excellent constitution strikes again:

The High Court has ruled that the country can't open new coal plants because that would violate citizens' rights to a healthy environment.

Reading List: Adam Hanieh Materially speaking, oil is simply a sticky, black goo. It doesn’t have any innate power separate from the kind of society we live in—capitalism.

Materially speaking, oil is simply a sticky, black goo. It doesn’t have any innate power separate from the kind of society we live in—capitalism. africasacountry.com/2024/12/read...

Liberation is not propaganda At Africa Energy Week, the language of resource sovereignty disguised a new form of climate denial that appropriates progressive rhetoric in service of fossil fuel companies.

📄 New piece in @africasacountry.bsky.social

Raira and I explore how the fossil fuel industry appropriates the language of resource sovereignty, #decolonisation and #sustainabledevelopment critiques to expand extractavism and green colonialism on the continent.

africasacountry.com/2024/11/libe...

Liberation is not propaganda At Africa Energy Week, the language of resource sovereignty disguised a new form of climate denial that appropriates progressive rhetoric in service of fossil fuel companies.

James Granelli and Raíra Fróes visit Africa Energy Week in Cape Town, and find that the language of resource sovereignty is disguised a new form of climate denial that appropriates progressive rhetoric in service of fossil fuel companies. africasacountry.com/2024/11/libe...

Liberation is not propaganda At Africa Energy Week, the language of resource sovereignty disguised a new form of climate denial that appropriates progressive rhetoric in service of fossil fuel companies.

Oil and gas corporations are appropriating and perverting the language of decolonisation and sovereignty to push forward their extractive and harmful neocolonial agenda. A nice piece in @africasacountry.bsky.social calling out this duplicitous propaganda. 1/2

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