Saliem Fakir - Low Carbon Future
What can we tell of Eskom’s future from the Denton report?
By: Saliem Fakir 3rd March 2017 The debate on the independent power producer (IPP) programme can serve as a useful distraction, and power utility Eskom is exploiting it to the... →
Going beyond the Limits to Growth debate
By: Saliem Fakir 10th February 2017 The Limits to Growth (LTG) thesis was developed in the 1970s by a group of experts collectively called the Club of Rome. They used a computer (at... →
Why the future need not be so bleak
By: Saliem Fakir 27th January 2017 Sometimes environmental dystopia can obscure progress. As the global climate negotiation process moves along, it is interesting to see how the... →
Climate change in the Donald Trump era
By: Saliem Fakir 9th December 2016 Donald Trump's Presidency will, no doubt, have a significant impact on the progress on collective action on the climate change front. The US... →
Decolonisation of science – what is it?
By: Saliem Fakir 11th November 2016 A group of University of Cape Town students organised a panel discussion on the decolonisation of science, which is also another way of saying that... →
Why technological transitions happen
By: Saliem Fakir 14th October 2016 Sustainability theorists have generally provided broad and abstract descriptors of technoeconomic transitions, as they are focused on drivers that... →
The future is bright for renewables
By: Saliem Fakir 2nd September 2016 It is hard for people to appreciate the history of renewables if they were not there from the beginning. Renewables started way before the large... →
Can Europe survive without Britain?
By: Saliem Fakir 5th August 2016 The European project has been long in the making, starting with the formation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), which involved... →
What next for environmentalism?
By: Saliem Fakir 1st July 2016 This question – What's next for environmentalism? – arose from a reflection piece (which is available on the WWF-SA website) that I wrote for the... →
Realities of modern energy planning
By: Saliem Fakir 3rd June 2016 Energy technologies involve two realities that influence the way we do our planning: certainty and uncertainty. There is certainty in tried and... →
