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Mimi Sheller, sociologist: “The Trump administration preferred death by fossil fuels to a green transition.”

Driven by carbon capital and tech giants, the United States is sinking into a "negative transition" that sacrifices ecology for the hypermobility of elites, explains the American researcher in an op-ed in Le Monde.

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Mimi Sheller, sociologist: “The Trump administration preferred death by fossil fuels to a green transition.”

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