Amitav Ghosh: “Abundance is over, Europeans need to hear it”

[À l’occasion de l’ouverture de la COP27, nous publions une série d’articles consacrés au climat.] Behind the climate inaction of Western societies, there is the impression that climate change will mainly affect populations in the South, explains the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh in this interview given to the Belgian daily “De Standaard”. For him, this conviction is a direct legacy of five centuries of colonialism.