Reading Response 10

Judith Jenssen
Baruch College
16th April 2021
 Reading Response 10

Question 2 on Táíwò and Cibralic:

Explain what the authors mean by ‘climate colonialism’ and ‘climate reparations.’

Describe actions that exemplify each of these different approaches to the climate crisis (the

article is full of examples, so narrow in on two of them).

From the perspective of the author, the term cultural colonialism means the power game going

around the world with the increased injustice and inequality due to the climatic effect. Climate

colonialism includes the economic and resource impacts on the specific state due to the climate

conditions. It’s like the injustice that the capitalist will enjoy more profit while the workers who

do the real work, have a very tiny share of the piece. The same is going here that the ones who

share very little part for affecting the climate and causing global warming will have to suffer

more for the reparation procedure and increase their economic burden.

Climate reparations are the steps taken to repair the climatic effects going around the world.

Global warming causes a lot of adverse effects on human health and the earth's surface. The

laws for climate reparations are made by international relations law. According to international

law, industrial states are responsible for excessive greenhouse gas emission and global warming

and they should be required to contribute a fair share in the climate reparation programs. The

climatic change responsibility is the most considerable issue in this 21st century, the notion of

using your property in such a manner that it cannot harm others, so the countries should be
aware that if their industrial waste and air pollution causing harm to other people then they also

took some steps to minimize it (Mayer, 2017).

Climate colonialism and climate reparation are linked with each other as for the world politics

and the alliance bond of the powerful country and according to their wills (Sealey-Huggins,

2018).

References:

Mayer B. Climate change reparations and the law and practice of state responsibility. Asian

journal of international law. 2017 Jan;7(1):185-216.

Sealey-Huggins, L. (2018). 10|‘THE CLIMATE CRISIS IS ARACIST CRISIS’:

STRUCTURAL RACISM, INEQUALITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE. The fire now:

Anti-racist scholarship in times of explicit racial violence, 10.

Taboo Terms
Scarce resources Abundant resources Climate colonialism Climate Reparation

Scarcity Plenty Resource Alliance Suggestions

Limited Natural Resource Powerful States Financial budget

Economic Problem Land & Labor Green New Deal Maintenance

Water Capital Power Structure Carbon Removal