Geographical Magazine November 2022 Retour à l'édition précédente

Renawable energy is a big theme in this month's issue of Geographical. Africa's demand for energy is expected to double in the next 20 years with a booming population and rapid economic growth, and as Mark Rowe reports in his detailed Dossier (Page 18) countries such as Mozambique and Uganda see enormous benefits from exploiting recently discovered gas reserves, while South Africa and Zimbabwe could cash in on easily accessible coal seams. Will the fear of being locked into the power sources of another age while the rest of the world transitions to renewables be enough to thwart such short-term solutions? Our report from an expedition to Jan Mayan island in the Arctic Ocean (Page 42) highlights what can happen when humans ruthlesly exploit natural resources for quick profits. Plus, all the usual Geographical segments.