{"id":61933,"date":"2024-02-15T18:43:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T09:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/15\/end-fossil-fuel-era-to-address-colonial-injustices-urges-prominent-historian"},"modified":"2024-02-15T18:43:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T09:43:17","slug":"end-fossil-fuel-era-to-address-colonial-injustices-urges-prominent-historian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61933","title":{"rendered":"End fossil-fuel era to address colonial injustices, urges prominent historian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West should address \u2018colonisation of the present\u2019 and not focus on past, argues David Van Reybrouck<\/p>\n<p>Cities in the global north that curb their carbon emissions are doing more to address colonial injustices than those who focus their efforts on taking down statues and changing street names, one of Europe\u2019s leading historians has said.<\/p>\n<p>David Van Reybrouck, the Belgian author of a bestselling history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a new book on Indonesia\u2019s independence from Dutch rule, has become one of the key drivers of a nascent and often fraught debate about Europe\u2019s colonial legacies. Those who have lauded his work include the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the former UN secretary general Kofi Annan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/15\/end-fossil-fuel-era-to-address-colonial-injustices-urges-prominent-historian\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West should address \u2018colonisation of the present\u2019 and not focus on past, argues David Van ReybrouckCities in the global north that curb their carbon emissions are doing more to address colonial injustices than those who focus their efforts on taking do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[888,511,2331,749,71,221,492,752,156,2473,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belgium","category-books","category-climate-crisis","category-colonialism","category-culture","category-europe","category-fossil-fuels","category-history-books","category-indonesia","category-statues","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61934,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61933\/revisions\/61934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}