In a long essay for the London Review of Books, author and activist Naomi Klein looks at the concept of “othering” and how it has allowed climate change to take place. Othering allows expulsion, land theft, occupation and invasion to happen. She writes: “Because the whole point of othering is that the other doesn’t have the same rights, the same humanity, as those making the distinction. What does this have to do with climate change? Perhaps everything.”

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