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The Environmental Afterlives of Sri Lanka’s Civil War
Sri Lanka, Issue 4, Essay Jennifer Dathan 11/18/20 Sri Lanka, Issue 4, Essay Jennifer Dathan 11/18/20

The Environmental Afterlives of Sri Lanka’s Civil War

How Sri Lanka’s decades-long civil war lives on — in the soil, on the land, and within human and non-human animals.

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Pakistan’s First Climate Prisoners: Baba Jan & Affectees of the Attabad Disaster
Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Tabitha Spence 9/25/20 Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Tabitha Spence 9/25/20

Pakistan’s First Climate Prisoners: Baba Jan & Affectees of the Attabad Disaster

Baba Jan and his comrades, Pakistan’s first climate prisoners, have led the charge for climate justice, ecological protection, and self-determination for over a decade.

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The Discolouration of “Green Growth” in Pakistan
Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Sara Abraham 9/21/20 Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Sara Abraham 9/21/20

The Discolouration of “Green Growth” in Pakistan

As “Green Growth” gains popularity among a range of political actors, a critique of the agenda’s growing currency in Pakistan and its worrying alliance with capitalist “development”.

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Green, Green Rocky Road: The Perils of Greenwashing Pakistan
Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Usman Ashraf 9/6/20 Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Usman Ashraf 9/6/20

Green, Green Rocky Road: The Perils of Greenwashing Pakistan

By rendering it a “technical problem”, Pakistan’s “greening” initiatives only exacerbate the country’s environmental crisis.

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Pollution and Patriarchy in Tribal India
India, Issue 4, Essay Asmita Bhutani 7/13/20 India, Issue 4, Essay Asmita Bhutani 7/13/20

Pollution and Patriarchy in Tribal India

In tribal India, violence against the environment and women are connected and part of the country’s dispossession-driven capitalism.

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There are No Win-Win Solutions
India, Issue 4, Essay Kudrat Wadhwa 7/10/20 India, Issue 4, Essay Kudrat Wadhwa 7/10/20

There are No Win-Win Solutions

Indian conglomerates rushing to invest in renewable energy obscure dirtier practices of ecological damage and labour injustice.

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Orientalizing Environmentalism: Green Movements in India
India, Issue 4, Essay Vismay Kamate 5/30/20 India, Issue 4, Essay Vismay Kamate 5/30/20

Orientalizing Environmentalism: Green Movements in India

Millenial-led environmental movements in India fall prey to imitating their Western counterparts. If environmentalism is to have any success in the country, we need a more vernacular environmentalism.

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No Harm Here is Still Harm There: The Green New Deal and the Global South (II)
Issue 4, Essay Vijay Kolinjivadi & Ashish Kothari 5/21/20 Issue 4, Essay Vijay Kolinjivadi & Ashish Kothari 5/21/20

No Harm Here is Still Harm There: The Green New Deal and the Global South (II)

A GND which fails to challenge the hegemony of growth-led development perpetuates the exploitation of the Global South and will be unable to prevent global ecological social collapse.

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No Harm Here is Still Harm There: The Green New Deal and the Global South (I)
Issue 4, Essay Vijay Kolinjivadi & Ashish Kothari 5/20/20 Issue 4, Essay Vijay Kolinjivadi & Ashish Kothari 5/20/20

No Harm Here is Still Harm There: The Green New Deal and the Global South (I)

Without accounting for globalized production, a Green New Deal in the Global North will merely spur the imperialist quest for cheaper resources and labour to satisfy “eco-friendly” consumption.

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Sri Lanka’s Tamils Trapped Between War and Waste
Sri Lanka, Issue 4, Essay Visvajit Sriramrajan 5/18/20 Sri Lanka, Issue 4, Essay Visvajit Sriramrajan 5/18/20

Sri Lanka’s Tamils Trapped Between War and Waste

Sri Lanka's environmental progress depends on its treatment of its minority Tamils, who have suffered for decades under majoritarian rule

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COVID-19 Comes to Polluted Lahore
Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Umair Muhammad 4/18/20 Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Umair Muhammad 4/18/20

COVID-19 Comes to Polluted Lahore

Lahore’s terrible air quality has prepared the ground for the novel coronavirus to do unspeakable amounts of harm. In coming out of this crisis, we must insist that the city’s deadly air pollution be cleaned up.

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