Nothing GREEN caused this crisis, SA has been in a very extreme drought for several years, driven by El Nino.... Much of the country has begun recovering as the multi year drought has been ending, but Capetown area has not yet.
Before saying nothing green caused the crisis, I’d like to know what the “green” measures were. In many places, like CA, they include not building needed reservoirs, shutting down and prohibiting: hydro-power projects, coal generation projects, and nuclear power plants; and encouraging boondoggles like wind and solar power where conventional and nuclear power would be cheaper and more efficient. If that kind of “greening” is what has happened at Cape Town, then there’s a good chance it left them sitting ducks for the present crisis because they’d lack adequate water storage to cover the drought and adequate electrical power to run desalination plants. I’d like to see an article that covers those points.