{"id":5754,"date":"2022-08-01T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/renewable-energy-brings-true-blessing-and-no-curse"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:33:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:33:34","slug":"renewable-energy-brings-true-blessing-and-no-curse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/renewable-energy-brings-true-blessing-and-no-curse\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewable energy brings true blessing and no curse"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/water-pan_1659339264.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin is becoming the latest unsavoury dictator to control the flow of fossil fuels.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>The crippling spike in energy prices underlines the need to urgently decentralise and democratise our energy systems. The problem with fossil fuels is, that they give power to the few who own and control them.<br\/><br\/>They easily lead to corruption and inequality. Whether it\u2019s Putin and Russian gas or Mohammed bin Salman and Saudi Arabian oil, it\u2019s bad news for the world when these petro dictators are in control of the world\u2019s energy.<br\/><br\/>Africa has seen the fossil fuel \u2018resource curse\u2019. Were oil and gas the answer to our problems, then Nigeria would be a utopia, what with its large oil reserves.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin is becoming the latest unsavoury dictator to control the flow of fossil fuels. The crippling spike in energy prices underlines the need to urgently decentralise and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-5754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-energy-transition"],"acf":{"url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6930,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5754\/revisions\/6930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5754"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}