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Yes, it is interrogating the mangled point that assumes background info, instead of the clarification of what I meant + it's in the spirit of pedantry not inquiry, you're going back to what I said about emissions as if I'm literally implying these papers actually argue that Africa is already in same the position as semi-industrialized light manufacturing powers like Indonesia, the Philippines, Mexico, other areas that have developed some industry in order to make products for Western companies.
Fucking lunacy I'm not spoon feeding you all of The Guardian's trademark ecofash articles https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/14/africa-gas-exploration-climate-disaster-un-reserves https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/07/pollutionwatch-africa-increases-reliance-fossil-fuels#comment-135267211 https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/africa-future-coal-oil-renewables-water but here's a few
If the alarmist framing "carbon bomb" doesn't give it away here, it's the future threat of Africa's development destabilizing the western financial system that concerns them. Not chiefly what would happen climatologically if they started using a lot more fossil fuels in order to keep up with demands of globalization + their respective debt traps. Just look at migrant labor on farms and first world countries. These people aren't interested in mechanization. They're interested in slavery. They never seriously invested in the green technologies that would allow Africa to develop without this carbon bomb going off, instead they wrote articles about how green energy wasn't economically viable. Why isn't avoiding the apocalypse economically viable? You'll find there's only subtle difference between Tories and Labour or whatever tf you people have over there now on important issues.
On western conditions, "climate protection" projects have become a semi-successful recolonization strategy where NGOs control African land instead of its inhabitants. Global emissions are used as political leverage to achieve this. They talked about using western state funds & retirements to spread a large forest preserve across the Sahel—this was of course pre-AES revolutions. Echoes old school feudal land agreements writ large, meant to ensure resourceful regions remain backwaters