Environmental Justice

Kate Crawford maps AI through minerals, energy, hidden labor, training data, classification, and state surveillance, revealing the extraction and concentrated power beneath machine intelligence.

Drawing on Maya Ch’orti’ and Binnizá family memory, environmental science, and community cases, Jessica Hernandez critiques ecocolonialism and reimagines stewardship through Indigenous science.

Max Liboiron uses plastic pollution research to show how environmental science can presume access to land, while modeling anticolonial research ethics.

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing follows matsutake ecology and trade to show how war, migration, and capital shape precarious livelihoods - and how life persists through damaged landscapes.

This climate anthology gathers women scientists, policy leaders, poets, and organizers, treating climate action as leadership, grief, and collective imagination.

Harriet A. Washington links environmental racism and toxic exposure to health and cognitive harm, challenging claims that racial inequality is biological.

Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens connect wildfire evacuation, queer performance and collective care, asking how ecosexual reciprocity can confront catastrophe without erasing unequal risk.

Indonesian conservationist Farwiza Farhan shows how women rangers in Aceh use local knowledge, collective patrols and community forestry permits to protect the rainforest and water their village depends on.

Anishinaabe attorney and organizer Tara Houska places resistance to the Standing Rock pipeline in a longer history of Indigenous land, sovereignty and cultural continuance, challenging accounts that reduce environmental struggle to a single protest.