Black Climates: Notes on Race, Our Environment, and Visions for Equitable Futures
"To want to 'save the planet', a person has to have a sense of belonging in it...
What would a saved planet look like for a Black collective?"
'This book is validating and monumental' -- Courttia Newland
'Sensitive, powerful and necessary' -- Joycelyn Longdon
Globally, Black communities are among those most affected by the climate crisis, despite contributing the least to its causes. For too long, environmental collapse has been framed as yet another burden Black people are expected to carry, layered on top of enduring systems of inequality and oppression.
In Black Climates, Selina Nwulu radically reframes the climate crisis as a story not only of environmental destruction, but of disconnection -- from land, from community, and from each other. She argues that climate change is rooted in histories of colonial violence and sustained by ongoing exploitation, making it an inherently racialised issue.
Drawing on her experience as former Young People's Laureate for London, Nwulu speaks directly to Black British readers who have often been excluded from mainstream environmental discourse. Blending poetic reflection with incisive analysis, she interweaves interviews with creatives, activists and campaigners to explore themes including air pollution, prison ecology, disability justice, migration, food systems, nature, community care and radical imagination.
Black Climates is an essential, empowering book for anyone seeking to understand the deep connections between Blackness and the climate crisis -- and to imagine more just, inclusive and sustainable futures.
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