DOUBLE FRACTURE

WHEN ENVIRONMETALISM AND COLONIALISM NAVIGATE TOGETHER

Abstract

Strong winds, cold and thunderstorms take over the sky. Persistent waves and swirling winds are the protagonists of Earth's landscape. A storm arises for the destruction of ecosystems, the imprisonment of non-humans, the violence of wars, socio-spatial inequalities, racial discrimination, the oppression of women and the transformation of nature into merchandise. It is under the metaphor of a modern storm that Malcom Ferdinand in his work “For a decolonial ecology: thinking from the Caribbean world” announces the mass extinction of species that is underway, chemical combustion, the acceleration of planetary warming and the inert environmental justice are a warning that the storm is brewing. The massacre of Amerindians, the looting and exploitation of their lands are common actions since colonization. Hunting, capture, kidnapping, trafficking, destitution, reduction, rape, purchase and crossing the Atlantic are also known actions. The enslavement of black African men and women, removed from their motherland, together with the violence committed against Amerindians, produced a destructive way of inhabiting the Earth. This colonial Shakespeare dwelling is largely responsible for the modern form that is formed in the heavens. The transformation of humans and non-humans into mere resources to be exploited is a feature that has persisted in post-colonial countries. For Shakespeare, then, it would represent the alliance between two urgent problems: racism and the ecological crisis.