Click the link to read the article on the Wyoming Public Radio website (Jeff Victor). Here’s an excerpt:
The latest report looks at the policy and lifestyle changes necessary to avert the worst effects. Those include radical changes to the energy system, the global economy and even the design of cities.
University of Wyoming assistant professor Matt Henry said this report does something else significant. It identifies colonialism and its legacy as driving forces for the warming atmosphere. Henry said colonizers industrialized earlier and contributed far more to climate change than the countries and peoples they colonized. Now, formally colonized people and indigenous communities stand to bear the brunt of the devastation.
“Those communities are especially vulnerable to climate change,” Henry said. “So, you’re more likely to, for example, be displaced from your home on the Gulf Coast when a hurricane hits if you’re a person of color, if you’re indigenous.”