Once the red pill is taken [4]

This has become a mini series of posts on decolonisation on this blog. I thought the ‘red pill’ metaphor makes an apt title, as you cannot unsee structural inequality once you see it. Though it has struck me that it could be misinterpreted as the metaphor has been appropriated by anti-feminist and white supremacist groups online. The irony of ironies.

I can’t think of a better title yet, so I will carry on adding to it for now. This post is about climate change and how it is a colonial issue.

• ‘Waste colonialism’: World grapples with West’s unwanted plastic (Ruth Michaelson, The Guardian, 31 December 2021)

• Pollution Is Colonialism (Max Liboiron, 2021)

• The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis (Amitav Ghosh, 2021)

• The unbearable heaviness of climate coloniality (Farhana Sultana, Political Geography, 2022)