Laurie Parsons is senior lecturer in human geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. His books include Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate Breakdown, Going Nowhere Fast: Inequality in the Age of Translocality, and Climate Change in the Global Workplace.

07.06.2023

• Laurie Parsons

Rich Countries Are Exporting Climate Breakdown to the Global South

From waste to deforestation to drastic flooding, wealthy countries of the Global North are outsourcing the impacts of their resource extraction to poorer countries in the Global South. Call it “carbon colonialism.”