Why Addressing the Climate Crisis Will Increase Peace

What if the inequalities and exploitation that are destroying the environment are also driving conflict? Today’s guests help us understand how preventing conflict and responding to the climate crisis actually go hand in hand:

Tatiana Garavito Ibañez is a facilitator, organizer, and lifelong student dedicated to exploring the intersections of migration, race, and climate justice. She co-leads care and repair initiatives at Tipping Point UK. Tatiana divides her time between her home country, Colombia, and Belfast, in the north of Ireland. Find out more about Tatiana’s work at tippingpointuk.org.

Gustavo Garcia-Lopez is an engaged scholar, educator, and apprentice organizer from Puerto Rico. His work focuses on environmental and climate justice movements, and just transitions. He is currently an Assistant Researcher at the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, where he co-coordinates the Ecology and Society Workshop. Find out more about Gustavo’s work at ces.uc.pt/en/ces/pessoas/investigadoras-es/gustavo-garcia-lopez.

Recommended Reading:

• Anything by Gustavo Garcia-Lopez (publications listed here)
• Insurgent Ecologies: Between Environmental Struggles and Postcapitalist Transformation by the Undisciplined Environments Collective (Fernwood Publishing, forthcoming 2024)
• Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice by Hilda Lloréns (University of Washington Press, 2021)
• The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (AK Press, originally published 1961)
• Casa Pueblo's publications  

Disrupting Peace is a production of The World Peace Foundation. The show is produced by Bridget Conley and Emily Shaw. Engineering by Jacob Winik and Aja Simpson. Marketing and social media by Kelsey Henquinet. Show artwork by Simon Fung.