Reminder: if you're tweeting from India, chances are your device is powered by environmental racism. Most coal comes from indigenous lands. The Coal Bearing Areas Act allows land to be acquired w/o consent. We let caste-based colonialism go uninterrogated because 'development'.
Allies in the int'l climate movement look the other way, because they see only one kind of historical injustice. We know differently. We know just how deeply extractivism runs, how elites like you and I profit off others being denied rights to life, to land, to breathe.
Many of our eyes were opened to the extent of police brutality vs. workers, students and minorities in our cities, via lockdown, pogrom or protests. Throw in paramilitary, industrial security, pvt militias, the everyday fear of being "encountered" or arrested in sacrifice zones.
When workers die of asphyxiation in a mine or in a manhole they should never have been working in, we don't learn their names, no. If we briefly wince, we look at whether compensation was paid, 2 lakhs a body and move on. We don't return land or ask for forgiveness. That's caste.
Since independence, we have displaced more Adivasis for development projects than the entire current population of Australia. 
