THE SLAVERY CRIME MANUFACTURES THE COLONIAL CYCLONE

THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISPLACEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Abstract

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are among the regions most susceptible to climate change. To understand the true impacts of the global upheaval, there is an argument for the need to look beyond traditional indicators. In this sense, the bodies that are displaced on the periphery of the climate crisis play a central role. This study is proposed with a theoretical perspective that intersects ecology and decoloniality, allowing us to politically understand the ecological catastrophe. This is because, faced with a globalizing modern environmentalism and the colonial way of inhabiting, a portion of the world's population is positioned outside the world, and the violence to which they are subjected is treated as fatalities. Understanding that the abolition of slavery did not break with the colonial habitat and that modern environmentalism lacks an anti-racist and anti-colonial struggle, an analysis is carried out on the treatment given to these aspects in important and recent documents on environmental issues: the 27th Conference of the Parties Report and the State of the Climate in LAC Report (2022), in addition to statistical data provided by the Global Internal Displacement Report (2023). From the reflections proposed in this research, the urgency of constructing a change in international ecological policy is perceived, capable of breaking with the homogenization of traditional environmentalism, which feeds into (neo)malthusian and geopower dynamics.