Climate coloniality and settler colonialism: Adaptation and indigenous futurities

Faisal Bin Islam
Lindsay Naylor
James Edward Bryan
Dennis White Otter Coker

Climate change puts an inequitable and heavy burden on people who are forced to adapt to unjust socioenvironmental conditions created by the legacy of ongoing climate coloniality and historical settler and imperial colonialism. However, universalizing climate adaptation discourses fail to conceptualize these historical processes by framing climate change as external to complex social and human systems.