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friday 13 september 2024
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Why does environmentalism have a white skin?
- How do the societies and peoples of the South and East of the world view our mobilisation for the climate, the social scourge that has spread in Europe and in North America concerned about the effects of the loosening of the climate? How should we interpret the impression that the protest initiated by Greta Thunberg has produced among young people, as well as the climate emergency movement in general, which has remained within the borders of the rich North? How should the arguments on the ecological crisis be changed so that it can be taken over by the whole world, and above all by those people in the South who are already suffering from the effects of the insanity of the climate?
We have brought to these pages the analyses of two intellectuals and academics who were born in the South and claim their blackness. Economist Thierry Amougou argues that the climate emergency, as it has been formulated today, has its limit as it is a story formulated and centered on the rich West. On the other hand, political scientist and engineer Malcom Ferdinand stresses that the burden that environmentalism bears since its origins is not compatible with the analysis of colonialism at the root of the ecological crisis.
Authors: Thierry Amougou and Sébastien Malo (Malcom Ferdinand) Translation:
Pello Zubiria Kamino Home:
Joseba Larratxe Josevisky
Thierry Amougou: Ecological emergency, a story centered in the West
Malcom Ferdinand: "Western environmentalism extends in exchange for forgetting the colonial past"
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