Environmentalism is not a metaphor

By Remy Bargout Environmentalists live under a growing and yet age-old illusion that the mainstream movement has gained a critical mass, or unstoppable momentum that ‘now, consumer society, world leaders, and the capitalist system must reckon with’. In reality, the mainstream movement does not speak to power, but actually exerts it. Elite environmentalism is a …

Decolonizing nature, the academy, and Europe: An interview with Zoe Todd

by Aaron Vansintjan* "Political ecology will remain a colonizing force until it credits Indigenous worldviews and supports the work of Indigenous scholars." Currently several connected issues are coming to a head in anthropology, political ecology, and environmental policy. You have political ecologists insisting that there is no nature separate from humans, and that environmental conservation …