Dark Laboratory

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Nimble and prophesying, truthful and rigorous, Professor Tao Leigh Goffe roots the climate crisis to its true origins - the exploitation of people of colour - without hyperbole or lambast. This is the way it is. In having the knowledge, determination and simple intent to go where others have not, Dark Laboratory is a benchmark, both for experts within the climate struggle, and those wishing to know more. A vital, compelling and nuanced addition to the most pressing debate of modern times This timely book illuminates the connections between colonization and climate change by providing poignant real-world examples which expose the historically illiterate thinking of powerful nations on this topic A work of searching curiosity and intelligence that traces the connections between colonial power, racial violence and the perilous state of our planet today, while also sketching a path to a more liveable, less unequal future. It is a necessary book and an important one A fantastic, galvanising read. A clarion call on climate issues through a Caribbean lens An illuminating and vital redress of the climate crisis . . . I’m desperately glad that scholars like Tao are doing this crucial work The lens on climate change I have been wanting to see through. Goffe’s pertinent and compelling study reveals the field of natural history’s entanglement with the Caribbean region, and the lasting effects of this extraction on environment and people. Dark Laboratory expertly connects our present climate crisis with colonial capitalism in the Caribbean. As well as being a very important addition to the dialogue on slavery and reparations, this is a very enlightening new look at climate change . . . Presenting the Dark Laboratory wherein the effects of the resulting changes of climate, race and technology are studied, Tao Leigh Goffe invites us to save the planet from the climate crisis by divesting from the economies that have caused it and were designed to kill us, advising that we must question our Western assumptions and chart new strategies for how to live after climate crisis A necessary, much needed cri de coeur, a thoroughly compelling book about the climate crisis and the Caribbean region. Dark Laboratory is utterly unique to read; it is punch the air, punch in the gut, heart palpitations thrilling. Goffe isn't just a scholar of the current climate emergency but a poet and a feminist who joins the dots . . . Every page is mixed with heart and conviction. Mandatory reading on climate and the Caribbean region Hugely important . . . A truly illuminating book that joins the dots on the ideologies and realities that underpin our world, written with clarity, passion, insight and a frequently beautiful poetic turn of phrase. Essential reading for anyone with a curiosity over the true shape of global structures, and the intersections of identity, colonialism, capitalism and the climate crisis Goffe offers a compelling treatise for our time . . . This is a book that will expand the conventional wisdoms and vocabularies and reset our imaginary. It journeys across a vast territory of mobilities and ecologies, engaging with a range of indigenous knowledges in a stimulating and at times personal post-colonial account that communicates joy and optimism Expand reviews