Climate Change Is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice by Jeremy Williams
Author:Jeremy Williams [Williams, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: nature, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Social Science, Biracial & Multiracial Studies, Black Studies (Global), General, Minority Studies
ISBN: 9781785787768
Google: RIQiEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Icon Books
Published: 2021-06-10T23:28:57.310449+00:00
Climate violence
Climate change is nobodyâs fault. Nobody intended it. It has not been designed. It has been âcreated by generations of decisions from privileged people who seek to make themselves safe and comfortable, who contribute disproportionately to the problem of climate change while tending to avoid its worst effectsâ.16
Thatâs Kevin J. OâBrien, who argues that climate change is a problem of structural violence in his striking book The Violence of Climate Change. âIt has no single architect and no direct cause, but it is nevertheless violence â a selfish expression of power that harms others.â
The book discusses structural violence and presents historical case studies in non-violent resistance as possible responses to the climate crisis. It isnât specifically about race, but in adding the conclusions from earlier chapters to his insights, I reach an uncomfortable conclusion:
Climate change is racial violence.
There is a through line from George Floyd in Minneapolis to Archona and Priambandhu in Bangladesh. They have all suffered from acts of violence that spring from underlying patterns of inequality, where some peopleâs lives have greater value than othersâ. The convenience of White consumers, the right to drive or fly or eat beef, takes precedence over the rights of Black and Brown people around the world.
As demonstrators took to the streets of Minneapolis in May 2020, climate activists from the local branch of 350.org served food and provided first aid to protestors. Sam Grant, executive director and environmental justice campaigner, made the connection very clearly: âPolice violence is an aspect of a broader pattern of structural violence, which the climate crisis is a manifestation of.â17
It is all part of the same struggle, the defiant cry that Black Lives Matter.
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