Today's quick reads
Three articles selected for you today from New Internationalist magazine.
Green jobs - puffery and promise
534 - November, 2021
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Campaigners have long argued that a transition to renewable energy could provide a jobs bonanza. Now politicians are talking that talk – but many workers in the fossil-fuel industry believe it’s a con. Conrad Landin picks through the rhetoric with offshore workers in Scotland.
Shadow courts
532 - July, 2021
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Juliet Ferguson investigates the Energy Charter Treaty, an international agreement which could be very bad news for energy policy across the Global South.
Open Window - Privacy
517 - January, 2019
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Right to privacy by Elena Ospina (Colombia).
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