The environmental crisis we are currently facing is not a failure of awareness, we know, the people in power know...I mean there are whole summits about it! This crisis is a predictable outcome of colonialism, imperialism and capitalism, of systems designed to ruthlessly extract. The Big 3 (that’s what I like to call colonialism, imperialism and capitalism) did not only displace peoples; they displaced and destroyed entire relationships with the land, replacing reciprocity with ownership, stewardship with commodity, and living systems with inputs and outputs. That foundational violence is the root system beneath every environmental crisis we face today.
Capitalism accelerated what colonialism and imperialism began. The same logic that justified the theft of Indigenous lands (and people), that the Earth exists to be used, measured, and monetized, now drives the carbon economy, the fast fashion supply chain, and the industrial agriculture complex.
