Decolonizing Climate Coloniality

Abstract

"Not Too Late brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific, social, and emotional dimensions of the most urgent issue human beings have ever faced. Accessible, encouraging, and engaging, it's an invitation to everyone to understand the issue more deeply, participate more boldly, and imagine the future more creatively. In concise, illuminating essays and interviews, Not Too Late features the voices of Indigenous activists, such as Guam-based attorney and writer Julian Aguon; climate scientists, among them Jacquelyn Gill and Edward Carr; artists, such as Marshall Islands poet and activist Kathy Jeñtil-Kijiner; and longtime organizers, including The Tyranny of Oil author Antonia Juhasz and Emergent Strategy author adrienne maree brown. Shaped by the clear-eyed wisdom of editors Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and enhanced by illustrations by David Solnit, Not Too Late is a guide to take us from climate crisis to climate hope. Contributors include Julian Aguon, Jade Begay, adrienne maree brown, Edward Carr, Renato Redantor Constantino, Joelle Gergis, Jacquelyn Gill, Mary Annaise Heglar, Mary Ann Hitt, Roshi Joan Halifax, Nikayla Jefferson, Antonia Juhasz, Kathy Jetnil Kijiner, Fenton Lutunatabua & Joseph Sikulu, Yotam Marom, Denali Nalamalapu, Leah Stokes, Farhana Sultana, and Gloria Walton."--Publisher marketing. Join us. Difficult is not the same as impossible / Rebecca Solnit ; Nothing is inevitable / Thelma Young Lutunatabua -- We have the solutions. Here's where you come in / Mary Annaïse Heglar ; We are not doomed to climate chaos / Edward R. Carr ; Defeating the fossil-fuel industry / A conversation with oil policy analyst and investigative journalist Antonia Juhasz, Rebecca Solnit, and Thelma Young Lutunatabua ; A climate scientist's take on hope / Joëlle Gergis ; From destruction to abundance / Leah Cardamore Stokes ; Shared solutions are our greatest hope and strength / Gloria Walton ; Decolonizing climate coloniality / Farhana Sultana ; An Indigenous systems approach to the climate crisis / Jade Begay ; How the ants moved the elephants in Paris / Renato Redentor Constantino ; To hell with drowning / Julian Aguon ; An extremely incomplete list of climate victories -- Frameworks of possibility. What to do when the world is ending / Yotam Marom ; Meeting the more and the marrow : what moral anguish, grief, and fear give us / Roshi Joan Halifax ; Bigger than the easiest answer / Interview with Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner ; The asteroid and the fern / Jacquelyn Gill ; In praise of indirect consequences / Rebecca Solnit ; From the hunger strike with love / Nikayla Jefferson ; Full narratives of love and hope / Interview with Fenton Lutunatabua and Joseph Zane Sikulu, Pacific Climate Warriors -- The future we want. Imagination is a muscle / A conversation with adrienne maree brown ; Looking forward from the past : 2023 from 1973 / Rebecca Solnit ; Looking back from the future : 2023 from 2073 / Denali Sai Nalamalapu ; A love letter from the clean energy future / Mary Anne Hitt ; Different ways of measuring : on renunciation and abundance / Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua -- Take this with you. Packing (and unpacking) for an emergency / Rebecca Solnit ; Not only a danger but a promise / Thelma Young Lutunatabua.