Environmental justice

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.