Posts by Angelo Louw
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Big oil’s generational curse: pollutant-related epigenetic changes keeps South Africans in poverty cycle
After 60 years of exposure to air pollution by surrounding oil refineries, it will take this South African community at least two generations to reverse epigenetic changes
28 November 2022 -
3 African activists protecting food rights against Big Agriculture
Three activists who are pushing back to protect the right of African communities to continue our culture and traditions around food
20 September 2022 -
How the climate crisis is perpetuating hate crimes in South Africa
Without sensitisation of the climate crisis, the LGBTQIA+ community remain at risk of violence, exclusion from the economy and climate relief efforts
2 August 2022 -
5 Reasons to Save the Okavango Delta from Oil Colonialism
Youth climate activists in the Namibian capital, together with Indigenous, environmental and human rights groups, are taking action to prevent a fossil fuel industry-driven catastrophe in the Okavango Delta
25 May 2022 -
#PlasticsTreaty: Why a global plastics treaty is essential to Africa
Policy-makers at UNEA-5.2 don’t have to look very far from where they are right now to understand why an ambitious global plastics treaty is necessary.
18 February 2022 -
#PlasticsTreaty: Stop exploiting African and other global majority countries with ‘waste colonialism’
Richer countries are scrambling to find nations in the global majority to ship their waste off to. Angelo Louw unpacks waste colonialism and the need for a strong global plastic…
2 February 2022 -
Shell in South Africa: fossil fuels at full blast
Just weeks after COP26, the South African government has given Shell the go-ahead to explore for MORE oil and gas, threatening local livelihoods, marine life and the fight against climate…
10 December 2021 -
#RealZero video series shows how offsetting is the biggest book keeping trick of the century
A video series to highlight the dire consequences of falling for the world’s biggest polluters’ promises to “offset” their climate emissions hopes to inspire people to force decision-makers to take…
17 November 2021 -
10 African youth climate activists changing the face of the planet
Africa causes the least climate-wrecking emissions but bears the brunt of climate disaster. Meet 10 African youth climate activists demanding decision-makers protect people from the climate crisis.
21 October 2021