ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the issues – the environment and non-human, the decolonial challenge and unexceptional slow violence –. It begins with the environment, as this is often presented as the most urgent and catastrophic challenge to life itself. Environmental degradation and climate change are challenges to which international ethics must respond, and yet beyond Green theory it is unsurprising that it has yet to do so in a convincing or sustained way. It is normal practice to commence any writing on the environment and climate change with a set of scary statistics. The post- or decolonial challenge is the issue that ethics and international relations (IR) will increasingly need to confront. This language of 'challenges' and 'confrontation' between international ethics and post-/decolonialism is obviously profoundly problematic, as it implies these are two separate and internally homogenous fields of inquiry, encountering each other only on level terrain.
