Fossil Imperialism
This term describes the alliance between states and fossil capital to maintain dominance.
What is fossil imperialism?
This form of control uses armed force to protect fossil fuel interests abroad.
What is military power?
This concept links today’s climate crisis to past colonial power structures.
What is climate coloniality?
These countries suffer most from climate impacts, despite contributing least.
What are the Global South or less powerful nations?
This lens critiques climate policy based on its alignment with state-fossil alliances.
What is the fossil imperialism lens?
The economic driver behind fossil imperialism.
What is fossil capital?
A strategy where states impose trade penalties to maintain control of energy markets.
What is economic warfare?
A question asked to evaluate responsibility for environmental degradation.
What is "Who’s responsible?" or "Who pays the price?"
This pattern describes how fossil fuels are used for global dominance.
What is unequal impact/control?
A goal of decolonial strategy in climate justice.
What is dismantling systemic inequality or centering marginalized voices?
The author’s main concern with fossil imperialism in the modern world.
What is its persistence despite the climate crisis?
This tool involves overt or covert actions to destabilize anti-extractivist movements.
What is suppression of resistance?
This idea shows how climate change is more than just an environmental issue.
What is climate coloniality?
One key inequality: this group has fewer resources to adapt to climate threats.
What are the less powerful/vulnerable communities?
According to the article, this is essential for confronting fossil imperialism.
What is a decolonial framework or critique?
One reason fossil imperialism continues despite climate risks.
What is state-fossil alliances or profit incentives?
This historical method helped establish global fossil energy dominance.
What is colonization?
This term describes how Western hegemony is rooted in fossil fuel control.
What is strategic fossil dominance or fossil coloniality?
This phenomenon shows how historical power imbalances repeat today.
What is repeating patterns of inequality?
Evaluating climate policy involves checking for these three things.
What are state alliances, marginalized voices, and epistemologies/sovereignty?
The author’s suggested response to fossil imperialism
What is political resistance and decolonial strategy?
These global bodies help maintain the fossil regime via economic control.
What are the IMF, World Bank, and UN?
This dimension is necessary in solutions, beyond emissions cuts.
What is power, sovereignty, or justice?
The relationship between fossil fuels and five centuries of imperial history.
What is foundational/strategic dependence on fossil fuels?
This kind of solidarity is required for true climate justice.
What is transnational or anti-imperial solidarity?