ABSTRACT
This chapter examines anti-capitalist and anti-extractivist movements fighting for ‘System change, not Climate Change’. Climate justice activism includes struggles against fossil fuel extraction, organising by the victims of floods and storms, and movements for food sovereignty and access to resources. Based on the understanding that those least responsible for the production of greenhouse gases are the most affected by the disruption and chaos they cause, this radical approach draws attention to the colonial and gendered dimensions of the climate crisis. Instead of the false techno-fixes, climate justice calls for the proactive construction of a post-petroleum society, with radically redesigned economic, energy, food and transportation systems.
