Transforming carbon-intensive economies and societies to ones powered by clean energy is an absolute necessity in the face of the climate crisis, but the process of transition will be rocky, especially in places shaped by the economics and cultures of fossil-fuel extraction. In this section, our contributors envision pathways to clean-energy communities in Scotland, Norway, and southern Nigeria, imagining new political coalitions and modes of governance and decision-making.
Illustration by João Queiroz.