Black Climates

To want to save the planet, a person has to have a sense of belonging in it. What would a saved planet look like for a Black collective? What is this collective goal we are all signing up to, when so many of us are being left out of the conversation? In Black Climates, former Young Peoples Poet Laureate for London Selina Nwulu attempts to answer these questions, using her skills as a storyteller to create narratives that challenge traditional climate conversations, to explore the connections between blackness and the climate crisis. Writing in the tradition of Claudia Rankine and Christina Sharp, Selina Nwulu uses cross genre, experimental form combined with accessible and conversational prose to speak about these issues in new ways and connect with readers who may feel alienated by the mainstream climate movement. Focusing on the Black British experience, and weaving together personal experience with interviews, Black Climates is a creative attempt to explore the links between systemic deep-rooted issues that underpin both racial and climate injustice, and beyond. The book is structured in four parts: Air, Borders, Land, and How We Survive. These span air pollution, prison ecology, disability, migration, food, community care, radical imagination and much more. Each part will contain a number of essays, broken into several short sections with notes and poems threaded throughout, giving the reader space to pause and digest, as well as enabling us to interrogate the subject from different overlapping perspectives.