A red anger covers the sky. The waves are agitated, the water rises, the forests fall and the bodies sink into this bloody sea abyss. The heavens still thunder at this spectacle: the world is in full storm.
Behind its claim to universality, environmental thinking has been built on the concealment of the colonial, patriarchal and slave-owning foundations of modernity. Faced with the storm, environmentalism proposes a Noah's Ark that hides in its lair social inequalities, gender discrimination, racism and (post)colonial situations, and abandons demands for justice at the quayside.
Thinking about ecology from the Caribbean world confronts this absence from a region where imperialism, slavery and destruction of landscapes violently intertwined the destinies of Europeans, Amerindians and Africans. The slave ship reminds us that some are chained to the hold and sometimes thrown overboard at the mere thought of the storm. This is the unthought of the modern double fracture that separates colonial issues from environmental destruction. However, healing this fracture remains the key to a "living together" that preserves ecosystems as much as dignities. This is the ambition of a "decolonial ecology" that links ecological issues to the quest for a world emerging from slavery and colonization.

In the face of the storm, this book is an invitation to build a world-ship where the encounters of other humans and non-humans on the deck of justice draw the horizon of a common world.

Malcom Ferdinand is an environmental engineer from University College London, a doctor in political philosophy from Paris-Diderot University and a researcher at the CNRS (IRISSO / Paris-Dauphine University).