Decolonizing Environmentalism

Track of a white tailed deer on a forest trail.

My masters program in ecophilosophy has been a mixed experience so far. Two of my classes are radical and challenging to modernity, scientific materialism, and Western colonialism, and these have been quite enjoyable. Yet my other class, the one that is the introduction to my program, has been disappointing, but in a very educational way. It has brought me an insight that I think we ecologically-minded settlers and people of European heritage need to be mindful of: an environmentalism without decolonial politics at its core is guaranteed to perpetuate the causes of our present ecological and humanitarian crises.

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