Inaction on global warming amounts to racism – let me tell you why | Elise Yarde

My placard said: “Climate inaction = racism.” I want to talk about what this means. The countries that make up the global north are responsible for 92% of excess global emissions, but it’s the people in the global south who are suffering from the climate crisis right now. The climate crisis and the shape it takes is, therefore, inextricable from colonisation and oppression of black and brown lives. When your inaction causes suffering predominantly to black and brown people, then your inaction is racism. Anti-racism means acting as if the lives of black and brown people on the frontlines of the climate crisis really matter.