Climate Imperialism: Ecocriticism, Postcolonialism, and Global Climate Change

Global climate change threatens to kill or displace hundreds of thousands people and will irrevocably the lifestyles practically everyone on planet. However, effect imperialism colonialism is a topic that has not received adequate scrutiny. Empire been significant factor in rise fossil fuels. The complicated connections between conservation empire often make it difficult reconcile two disparate fields ecocriticism postcolonial studies. This paper discuss how have contributed to, continue shape, ever-looming threat global crisis, especially as manifests tropics. reinforces economic, social, racial conditions were started, fostered, thrived throughout long history colonization, inscribing new, slow form retracing pathways globalism already formed. Ultimately, may only be by considering through lens utilizing indigenous resistance damage this new can undone.