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Prof in Australia Claims Climate Change is ‘White Colonization of the Atmosphere’
“[M]ost rich white countries, including Australia, are doing precious little to properly address this inequity”
White people are at it again — this time they’re “colonizing the atmosphere,” according to an Australian professor.
Erin Fitz-Henry, who teaches anthropology and “development studies” at the University of Melbourne, writes in The Conversation that the notion of climate change being “racist” actually isn’t new; the medical journal The Lancet noted that as of 2015, the countries of the “Global North” accounted for 92 percent of “excess” CO2 emissions.
And the Global North is overwhelmingly white.
“[M]ost rich white countries, including Australia, are doing precious little to properly address this inequity,” Fitz-Henry writes. “For the most part, they refuse to accept the climate debt they owe to poorer countries and communities […] this injustice – a type of ‘atmospheric colonisation’ – is a form of deeply entrenched colonial racism that arguably represents the most pressing global equity issue of our time.”
Fitz-Henry says a global temperature increase of two degrees Celsius would threaten over 50 percent of Africa with “undernourishment” — despite the continent contributing very little to global warming.
Prof in Australia Claims Climate Change is ‘White Colonization of the Atmosphere’
“ost rich white countries, including Australia, are doing precious little to properly address this inequity”
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