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"When Bad Bunny and his dancers scaled power poles during his Super Bowl
performance, he wasn’t just entertaining millions. He was spotlighting how
Puerto Rico’s chronic power outages are a legacy of its colonisation.
Puerto Rico is far from alone in this struggle – colonialism and geopolitical
power imbalances have shaped access to electricity worldwide.
Puerto Rico has long suffered rolling blackouts lasting days and sometimes
months. This leaves residents – especially vulnerable populations – without
refrigeration, medical equipment, or air conditioning.
This isn’t just poor infrastructure management, though that is certainly an
issue. It’s the ongoing legacy of colonial control over energy systems.
Colonial powers built energy systems designed to extract resources and profits
for distant corporations and governments, not to serve local communities. As a
result, local communities pay high costs for inadequate power. Similar patterns
exist globally, from the Caribbean to the Middle East."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
