Eco-anxiety got your tongue?
And so it feels as if the world is slipping from beneath our feet. Or burning. Or melting. Or freezing. All at once. And it’s not just a feeling anymore. Apart from a privileged few in the Global North, the effects of climate breakdown affect us all, as our life-support systems crumble under the footprint of the Global North. It has been like this for decades, centuries even. As the Global North pined over foreign lands for their own colonial expansion, subjugation, suppression and extraction stole from sustainable livelihoods and churned out mainstream Western ideals of consumerism, individualism and growth. The resulting crimes led to environmental injustices, where degraded lands, pollution and health problems became enlaced with racism, sexism, albleism and other forms of othering. Now, the scale of climate change and biodiversity loss has encroached so far as to alarm people in the Global North, but the culprit remains the same. I came into the climate movement abou...