NewsPronto

 
Men's Weekly

.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

How colonialism's legacy makes it harder for countries to escape poverty and fossil fuels today

  • Written by Patrick Greiner, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Vanderbilt University
imageRenewable energy has increased access to electricity in poor countries, but it generally hasn't displaced fossil fuels.Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images

While fossil fuels were powering wealthy nations’ economic growth in the 19th and 20th centuries, many countries across the Global South remained largely impoverished.

Today, all that...

Read more: How colonialism's legacy makes it harder for countries to escape poverty and fossil fuels today

More Articles ...

  1. Danish children struggle to learn their vowel-filled language – and this changes how adult Danes interact
  2. Free-speech ruling won't help declining civil discourse
  3. What are tax havens? The answer explains why the G-7 effort to end them is unlikely to succeed
  4. What today's GOP demonstrates about the dangers of partisan conformity
  5. Youth sports and other challenges of a nonbinary world: 3 essential reads
  6. Closures of Black K-12 schools across the nation threaten neighborhood stability
  7. Tour de France: How many calories will the winner burn?
  8. Research that shines light on how cells recover from threats may lead to new insights into Alzheimer's and ALS
  9. Schools must act carefully on students' off-campus speech, Supreme Court rules
  10. Why it's such a big deal that the NFL's Carl Nassib came out as gay
  11. Conversion therapy is discredited and increases risk of suicide -- yet fewer than half of US states have bans in place
  12. The behind-the-scenes people and organizations connecting science and decision-making
  13. Ransomware, data breach, cyberattack: What do they have to do with your personal information, and how worried should you be?
  14. How palm oil became the world's most hated, most used fat source
  15. Why choosing the next dalai lama will be a religious – as well as a political – issue
  16. How the billions MacKenzie Scott is giving to colleges attended by students of color will help everyone in America
  17. Gifted education programs don't benefit Black students like they do white students
  18. 'Wrong number? Let's chat' Maasai herders in East Africa use misdials to make connections
  19. Yellowstone is losing its snow as the climate warms, and that means widespread problems for water and wildlife
  20. Despite outrage, new state voting laws don't spell democracy's end – but there are some threats
  21. How gay neighborhoods used the traumas of HIV to help American cities fight coronavirus
  22. For flood-prone cities, seawalls raise as many questions as they answer
  23. Transgender medicine – what care looks like, who seeks it out and what's still unknown: 3 essential reads
  24. The FDA’s weak drug manufacturing oversight is a potentially deadly problem
  25. Flawed data led to findings of a connection between time spent on devices and mental health problems – new research
  26. How Vladimir Putin uses natural gas to exert Russian influence and punish his enemies
  27. Biden's goal to permanently boost support for families echoes a failed Nixon proposal from 50 years ago – will it take off this time?
  28. I have city kids make comic books to create a buzz about mosquitoes and ecology
  29. What is the religious exemption to Title IX and what's at stake in LGBTQ students' legal challenge
  30. Global herd immunity remains out of reach because of inequitable vaccine distribution – 99% of people in poor countries are unvaccinated
  31. 'Upcycling' promises to turn food waste into your next meal
  32. Explorer Robert Ballard's memoir finds shipwrecks and strange life forms in the ocean's darkest reaches
  33. White Gen X and millennial evangelicals are losing faith in the conservative culture wars
  34. The gas tax's tortured history shows how hard it is to fund new infrastructure
  35. US third parties can rein in the extremism of the two-party system
  36. Critical race theory sparks activism in students
  37. The surface of Venus is cracked and moves like ice floating on the ocean – likely due to tectonic activity
  38. What's behind the rising profile of transgender kids? 3 essential reads
  39. Why gain-of-function research matters
  40. As urban life resumes, can US cities avert gridlock?
  41. What's next for health care reform after the Supreme Court rejects ACA's most recent challenge
  42. Does outer space end – or go on forever?
  43. How to consume news while maintaining your sanity
  44. The dip in the US birthrate isn't a crisis, but the fall in immigration may be
  45. 'Managed retreat' done right can reinvent cities so they're better for everyone – and avoid harm from flooding, heat and fires
  46. This tiny minority of Iraqis follows an ancient Gnostic religion – and there's a chance they could be your neighbors too
  47. 4 ways to get more Black and Latino teachers in K-12 public schools
  48. Supreme Court unanimously upholds religious liberty over LGBTQ rights -- and nods to a bigger win for conservatives ahead
  49. Federal policy has failed to protect Indigenous women
  50. How Black writers and journalists have wielded punctuation in their activism