Wretched of the Earth collective
As the Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe (PARCOE), we have our own understanding (‘overstanding’) of the problem of climate change, within the context of Pan-Afrikan Internationalism. PARCOE sees climate change as one of the results of the criminal imposition – by the ruling classes of Europe – of a rapacious system expropriating the resources of the globe, not only at the expense of the majority of Humanity, but also to the detriment of our Mother Earth.
From the 15th Century onwards, Afrikan people have been suffering environmental racism and other crimes of genocide and ecocide. This has developed through enslavement in its three main phases of chattelisation, colonialism and neocolonialism, within a globalising capitalist framework. It has included the misuse of enslaved Afrikan mental and physical labour to perpetrate environmental destruction and genocide across the Americas and Asia as well as Afrika. One result is systematised Afriphobia and other forms of anti-Black racism, which we term the Maangamizi. [1]
