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Against Nature | Raj Patel & Tina Ngata

The Verso Podcast

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The Role of Ecological Devastation in the Global Economy

Tina: I would love to know a little bit more about your own activism within and around these areas you're involved in local anti plastic activism, anti plastic waste activism. And how the ideas around economies of waste ties into exactly the same story that Raj and I've been talking about in terms of domination and hierarchies and who matters and who doesn't matter. That is fascinating and horrifying and unsurprising all in a single breath. The right to exploit and extract from is mirrored in the right to pollute and to turn into spaces of waste - even as humans when you are treated as a form of waste as well so you're treated as some kind of collateral.

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