To understand what it means to advance a Just Transition of California’s energy system, we must understand the energy system we seek to change. This video digs into some of the challenging questions surrounding the extraction required for the “clean energy” transition and provides reflection prompts to help envision pathways for real solutions.

Christian Stalberg

Doctoral Student

Anthropology & Social Change

CIIS, San Francisco, CA

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept." - Angela Davis

“What is it that we can do that addresses whatever the problem is, rather than what it is that we’re trying to get somebody else to do.” – Alice Lynd

“It’s better to die for an idea that is going to live than to live for an idea that is going to die.” – Steve Biko

“We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but so did the divine right of kings.” - Ursula K. Le Guin