A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis by Vanessa Nakate

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It is a system of extractive and unregulated capitalism that privileges the needs and concerns of wealthy countries, and wealthier populations within those countries, who are wealthier populations within those countries, who are wealthier precisely because the natural resources of the poorer countries, and their inhabitants, have enriched them. This system would rather destroy the planet for the benefit of the few rather than preserve it for the many. It's founded on greed and exploitation rather than the well-being of the human family and even creation as a whole. It's a system where the costs of the unsustainable lifestyle of the few are borne by the many: in financial terms, in respect to their physical and mental welfare, and in their very future. It enables a privileged minority to be free by constraining possibilities for the rest.
This system can never have enough. It always wants more: more money, more from nature, more from other people, It relies on a lack of consideration for the value of a human life and the planet, and depends on spreading the delusion that everyone can climb to the top of the pole if they follow the rules. But they won't, for the system is destroying the pole itself.
The system is maintained in large part by a fantasy of endless economic growth without cost, blinding itself to the extreme inequalities and ecological collapse. (pg. 161)
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Such a great book - Vanessa Nakate has a wonderful way of making activism seem accessible while still sharing the urgency of the climate emergency and highlighting the racism and eraser of BIPOC and Global South voice in the climate change field. Definitely recommend reading.