This chapter examines the numerous forms of “loss and damage” experienced by poor and racialized communities who reside in the sacrifice zones of the fossil fuel-based world economy (carbon capitalism), including displacement, dispossession, and poisoning of land, air, and water. It argues...

This article examines the legal and moral basis for migration as a form of reparation for the harms inflicted on the states and peoples of the Global South through climate change and through centuries of predatory economic policies. Using Central American migration to the United States as a case...

This article expands our understanding of climate justice by demonstrating how racial subordination, environmental degradation, and the fossil fuel-based capitalist world economy are interrelated. It uses these insights to critique the emerging legal and policy responses to climate...

The global food system is in a state of profound crisis. Decades of misguided aid, trade and production policies have resulted in an unprecedented erosion of agrobiodiversity that renders the world's food supply vulnerable to catastrophic crop failure in the event of drought, heavy rains, and...

Scientists believe that climate change will displace hundreds of millions of people by 2050. Most of this displacement will occur in the ecologically and economically vulnerable states of the Global South. Neither international refugee law nor the legal regime governing climate change has...

This article argues that climate change cannot be addressed unless we dismantle the racial hierarchies that have facilitated massive, unchecked resource extraction. Drawing upon the framework of racial capitalism, the article explains how racism enables states and corporations to pursue policies...