I've written 8 pieces in the past few months on the #climatecrisis and why the global south deserve #climatereparations. 1 was published. 3 were requested. 2 appear within 2 weeks. 2 need a home. And hopefully the final one will be edited and approved. Here's a thread about them:

First, I've come to this conclusion and am uncompromising about it because of how morally bankrupt and myopic the "new left" has become because of of xenophobia & nationalism that have contributed to a very inward-looking stance that offers imperialist responses to Trump/Brexit +

But the argument stands by itself because of the historical legacies European & North American colonisation that created an warming uninhabitable planet and conditioning climate disruption /disaster on people's lives in the global south. Haiti is central to my education on this +

In the first, thanks to @AJEnglish, I dissect the narrative of a "green recovery" which illustrates how ignoring the the environmental crimes visited upon the global south by the global north, green new deals are a harbinger of imperialism https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/indepth/opinion/green-deal-imperial-masterplan-200603124538265.html.

These "green" recovery discussions around climate change are also politically biased and narrow-minded as reducing carbons emissions, while important, ignore the untold and unprecedented loss & damage already visited on island countries and lower-income marginalised countries. +

The approaches of US/UK left are as extractive, short-sighted, and paternalistic as the 'right'. They contrast with the 60s and 70s which were internationalist and embraced third worldism and third world struggles. Now, solidarity is an afterthought or essentially perfomative. +

Or not even part of the conversation. Second, I show based on the experience of hurricane dorian in 2019 and other major climate induced disasters, how the unfair labeling of islands as "tax havens" ignore the extractive nature of finance capital and marginalisation there +

The fact these countries exploited a market opportunity to set up offshore financial centers, based on the economic policies of the global North. Yet, now they're punished with costly regulation and being "blacklisted" on @TaxJusticeNet index and face unjust climate devastation.+

Third, I connect the struggles against anti-black racism and racial capitalism in the US and world with the climate crisis, especially as seen in the global south. I show how climate reparations are justified due to historical exploitation, extraction & environmental harm. +

I also suggest that politically we should see clear links between calls for reparations in the US and the need for climate reparations in global south. We also need to approach these interconnected demands from a radical internationalist perspective given outsized US imperialism.

Fourth, my recent piece unpacks the recent climate plans of the US congress/Biden-Sanders "unity" task force showing their clear imperialist ambitions and underpinnings in the manner in which the global south is objectified in these plans and deemed a national security threat. +

These plans also disregard the US outsized historical role in the climate crisis and its financial system. The latter is seen through its funding of fossil fuels but also its investor class being closely linked to the Green Climate Fund which these climate plans aim to bolster. +

We therefore cannot view calls for "green recovery" as automatically beneficial or immediately supportive of climate justice in the global south. They either do not consider their needs or experiences wrt climate-induced devastation and would be hostile to climate reparations.