Liberation Ecology: Against the Racial Capitalist World System

Our planetary systems are in crisis, and dominant capitalist solutions are primarily making things worse. Across the world, communities are rising with revolutionary alternatives, but mainstream environmental governance spheres and Global North climate movements too often overlook these. To confront socioecological crises, we must understand racial capitalism as a world ecological system that shapes how environmental destruction is experienced and resisted across continents. Dr. Lisa Tilley explores the immense power of socioecological solidarity by linking the struggles of Indigenous frontiers, Third World peripheries, and Global North core spaces. Liberation Ecology is urgent and uncompromising. It reveals why we cannot solve the climate crisis with frameworks that center on the North or ignore racial structures of oppression. We must build a politics of solidarity to create ecologies of liberation.