The European Green Deal on rural agriculture, energy transition and neo-colonial collapses in the Global South

Nubia Barrera Silva

The European Green Pact aims to address the economic contradictions between agribusiness and the declining primary sector, which are causing irreparable damage and fracturing nature. We also analyse the double standard of the Deforestation-Free Supply Chain Law, one clearly evident in the EU and the other, hidden, and extra-territorial, in the Brazilian Amazon. Added to this is the unlimited demand for the extraction, production, and consumption of strategic materials of geopolitical interest. In contrast, the EU deliberately ignores the limited storage capacity of mines in peripheral countries of the Southern Cone, the Sahel Belt and the rising hegemonic power of China. The energy transition, under the Ukrainian and other ongoing wars in the planetary geography, increases the exponential demand of the periodic table of minerals for security, defence, arms purchases and endless wars. Not yet enough, investments in climate mitigation have been directed towards NATO interests. This has led to an increase in eco-environmental cascades, especially in Southern Europe, plus another continental threat of global reach, the approaching breakdown of the AMOC Current under the indifference of EU politicians and rulers.

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