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Namibia's Shark Island: Europe's push for green hydrogen risks compromising sites of colonial genocide

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Namibia will host the Global African Hydrogen Summit in September 2025 .

Green hydrogen has a central role in global decarbonization ambitions.

But the ocean, which Namibia 's development projects interact with, is often overlooked as a space of memory, justice and relations.

During colonial rule, German colonizers incarcerated Namibians offshore aboard ships and threw the bodies of those who had died in the concentration camp into the ocean.

This work also highlights cultural and spiritual relations with the ocean that persist despite this dispossession. Namibia 's ocean and coasts are not empty spaces to be exploited for the benefit of Europe 's energy future. A deeper understanding of histories, and present day connections, provide lessons for meaningful reconciliation. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Provided by The ConversationThis story was originally published on Phys.org . Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates..

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