Colonization and slavery conditioned the current ecological crisis
Audio 48:30
In Lorrain, the only organic banana plantation in Martinique.
© RFI / Igor Strauss
By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow
50 min
Colonization and slavery have forged in the collective imagination a way of inhabiting the Earth which has largely participated in the ecological crisis we are experiencing today.
Pollution, loss of biodiversity and climate change are the material traces of “colonial living”.
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This is the thesis of our guest
Malcolm Ferdinand
, engineer and philosopher, author of
A decolonial ecology, thinking ecology from the Caribbean world
, Seuil.
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