Aissa Dearing (they/she) is an environmental justice activist and a PhD student at the University of Oxford, studying climate solutions at the nexus of food sovereignty, Indigenous rights, and carbon drawdown. She is from Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Casting a vote at your local polling place helps elect candidates who can enact environmental policies while in office. But is voting enough to bring change?
The idea of awarding legal personhood to nature has received renewed attention in the contemporary environmental justice movement, but much contention remains.
Climate justice activists want countries of the Global North to make up for centuries of uneven industrialization, deforestation, extraction, and consumption.
The term "net zero" remains ill-defined among the public. So what is it? Why is it necessary, and how does it fall short of solving all our climate woes?
The supermarket revolution made food more affordable and accessible than ever. But do the hidden costs of food feed into our illusions of justice and progress?
In April 2010, representatives from 140 countries gathered in Bolivia to outline an explicitly anti-capitalist, decolonial agenda for the sake of the planet.
