Towards a Decolonial and Feminist Global Green New Deal
By Bhumika Muchhala
A decolonial and feminist Global Green New Deal (GGND) resists the hierarchies of racial, gender-, class-, caste- and sexuality-based inequalities which underpin colonial, neoliberal, and capitalist structures, systems, and discourses. The ecological collapse we are experiencing in climate change is the direct result of an unequal social contract in which these hierarchies shape our social and economic relations. A decolonial stance means that we cannot deny that we live in a world where black, brown, feminine, queer, and working-class bodies have faced acts of violent dehumanization. It means we cannot deny the links between climate change, racialized and gendered labour exploitation, and trade rules and economic structures that reproduce inequalities.