The partnership announced between the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, SANParks and TotalEnergies makes a mockery of efforts to fight climate change by giving one of the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases a chance to seem to be supporting conservation.
from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show that the climate crisis has already disrupted marine, terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems, caused the first climate-driven extinctions, increased disease and mass mortality events of plants and animals, and negatively impacted ecosystem services, livelihoods and cultural practices.
TotalEnergies, formally known as Total, is one of the world’s largest energy companies whose profiteering and fossil fuel business have contributed significantly to the climate crisis. Total’s rebrand was made to indicate the company’s move to diversify their business with more renewable sources. However, their actions and investments show that this move was more of a smart marketing choice than a real change in ideology.
, which described Total’s response to global warming between 1971 and 2021: “Total personnel received warnings of the potential for catastrophic global warming from its products by 1971, became more fully informed of the issue in the 1980s, began promoting doubt regarding the scientific basis for global warming by the late 1980s, and ultimately settled on a position in the late 1990s of publicly accepting climate science while promoting policy delay or policies peripheral to fossil fuel control.
We have already seen how vulnerable our national parks are to the effects of climate change, be it the increasing likelihood of drought, extreme rainfall and flooding, or ocean acidificationJust this year the Kruger National Park was hit by floods which damaged roads and bridges, with a repair cost of upwards ofof extreme wildfires in Cape Town, home of the Table Mountain National Park – a biodiversity hotspot and a protected area for South Africa’s endemic fynbos.
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