Climate Change Is a Story of Subaltern Resistance

The science of global warming is being appropriated in order to deliver some very explicit political goals. This is a long way from the science first narratives or arguments from which I started. We could see this story that climate change in effect, it's a story of subaltern resistance. The Pacific Climate Warriors are an idea around which Pacific Islanders often seen as marginal and passive victims by Western commentators. No climate change is an opportunity for us to rise up and demonstrate that we are not passive, we are not victims," he says.