From Petty Fraud to Global Injustice: Climate Ecoviolence

Stoett, Peter; Omrow, Delon Alain

In this chapter we examine the rising phenomenon of climate crimes, from small fraud over carbon offsets to large-scale unreported emissions and efforts to mislead the public over the impacts and causes of climate change itself. The chapter also features a discussion of climate justice and its implications, examines the threat of “climate colonialism” and related issues in the transition to a post-carbon economy, and offers a syncretic case study of the disastrous Australian wildfires of 2019.