Decolonising Environmentalism
Channel: Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair
Date: 2021-05-30

The systems which uphold climate change are deeply embedded in global capitalism, a system born out of colonialism, and which continues to depend on colonialism.

To create the systemic changes we need to stop climate change, we need to challenge colonialism and colonial thinking.

Climate justice means racial justice, land justice and ending colonialism, ideologically and materially.

Join Nish Doshi and Tonny Nowshin to talk about the need for, and ways to decolonise environmentalism. How can we challenge the culture and worldview that sees everything as a resource, to be developed or protected, instead of viewing the planet as kin. What are the dangers of reactionary ecological thinking within our movement, from population Malthusians and ecofascism to racism by ostensible allies. What are the key links between enclosure, dispossession, colonialism, and climate change, that persist to today. Whose stories get told? Who gets to tell them? And who sets the priorities and strategy for our movement?