ABSTRACT
This chapter first traces the construction of vulnerability for others, mostly focused on climate change politics. This construction of the Other will be traced in light of how some actors are represented as a way to limit and suppress the extension of non-economistic associations in a world of political ecological crisis. The stripped down universe with the limited associations permit continued disenfranchisement and disregard, which create the conditions for vulnerability itself. It then elaborates on some of the specific constructions of Others at the crossroads of vulnerability as a way to illustrate the depth of the world politics of environmental skepticism. The counter-movement indicates that the advance of European imperial violence and dispossession was a balm to the supposed ignorance and brutality of tribal peoples who now have the promise of civilization held out to them like it was a gift they had been waiting for.
