Climate Change - Red Voice

Who’s Man is This? Black Radical Ecology and the Anthropogenic Question

"Wynter teaches us that ‘Man’ is a colonial relation, not a ‘natural’ one. The anthropogenic question shouldn’t be about discovering why evolution has made ‘us’ dominant. It should be about freeing both human and nonhuman ‘Things’ from the hold of the (white/Western) ‘Man.’"

Climate Change

A Story of the Nobodies: Climate Change, Privilege and a Woodcutter’s Life

"It's cool to diss capitalism and to talk of eating the rich, but awkward to talk of the privileges of those who engage in this discourse. Those who have forgotten about the poor woodcutter on the slum side of town."

Neocolonialism

Human Rights is a Farce: A dispatch from the Neocolonial state

"Activists clamor for it, this democracy within the neocolony. [...] They end up in jails for these sacred rituals of the neocolonial state. They are told and preached to by the high priests of this order that democracy and human rights are the most important thing any nation can have."

Decolonization

Go Back and Fetch It: Black Radical Ecology and the African-Centered Paradigm

"But Afrocentric paradigms locate divinity in the material world, such that change is most affected through engagement with nature. This allows us to see our empowerment and transformation within the planet."

Current Events

It's Not A Bug, It's A Feature

"What unites these two tragedies is the willful disregard for human life shown by large corporations across the globe. The stories are manifold, ranging from the banal to the obscene, but what is truly infuriating is the fact that it keeps happening."

Climate Change

Burnin’ Down Massa’s House: Notes Toward a Black Radical Ecology

"We need an ecological science...that is revolutionary and anti-colonial. [One] that reveals how the ecological problem is not an apocalypse, but is about the need for Massa’s house to burn."