Climate Colonialism
People's Summit for Climate Justice
A leading climate justice activist from the UK, Asad Rehman, said at the closing of COP26 “The rich have refused to do their fair share, more empty words on climate finance. You have turned your backs on the poorest who face a crisis of COVID, economic and climate apartheid because of the actions of the richest. It is immoral for the rich to talk about the future of their children and grandchildren when the children of the Global South are dying now.” Such scathing criticism was similarly paralleled by many scholar-activists who pointed out the failures to tackle loss and damage that disproportionately impacted the post-colonial coastal and small island nation-states. After the COP26, Ugandan youth climate activist Vanessa Nakate expressed her frustration, “We cannot adapt to starvation. We cannot adapt to extinction. We cannot eat coal. We cannot drink oil. We will not give up.”[1]
No More 'blah blah blah'
Carbon Offsetting
Carbon Credits
- ↑ Farhana Sultana, The unbearable heaviness of climate coloniality, Political Geography, Volume 99, 2022, 102638, ISSN 0962-6298, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102638.