Our World Is on Fire. Where to Look?

Our world is on fire and under water at the same time.

We’re living with hard-to-perceive floods, intensifying hurricanes, expanding droughts, and deadlier heat waves.

I’m not here to convince you that climate change – or, rather, our climate emergency – is real. I’m leaving that to the droughts, wildfires, floods, hurricanes, and rising sea levels to do that.

Instead, I give you three questions to keep in mind when we deconstruct the debates around what we’re doing to our planet. These questions both shape the narrative and, in a way, they become the narrative itself:

  • Production vs Consumption
  • Non-military vs Military pollution
  • The Global South vs The Global North

These are not conspiracy theories. Yet they are not often discussed by the mainstream media (also known as businesses).

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Published by Justina Poskeviciute

Justina is an independent political commentator, writer, and nonprofit professional, with a focus on anticolonial, feminist, antiwar, and climate-justice movements.

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