Environmental justice

A silent casualty of the indiscriminate Russian shelling of Ukraine is the environment, unleashing long-term threats to public health.

To achieve true environmental justice, we need to rethink our relationship with the planet and those we share it with.

Environmental disasters are not always dramatic one-off events, sometimes devastating effects arise over decades of neglect and damage. The fight for environmental justice in Martinique and Guadeloupe, which remain French “overseas territories”, is inscribed in a long struggle against colonial power and domination. For the people of these islands, decolonisation is far from an abstract notion – it is bound up with the most basic of human needs and can be a matter of life or death.

Simon Dalby on why achieving security in the age of climate crisis requires unpicking the fossil-fuelled industrial order.

Writer Kim Stanley Robinson explores how science fiction can be a source of inspiration rather than a reason to despair.

Jasmine Lorenzini explains how young people are getting involved in politics and challenging the norms of participation today.

An international energy agreement allows corporations to sue nation-states for phasing out fossil fuels.

A photo essay by Sofia Cherici and Federico Ambrosini tells the story of how, for one Italian town, democracy is an ongoing struggle for justice and self-determination.