In his inaugural book, Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World, the French-Martiniquan philosopher Malcom Ferdinand argues that there is a “double-fracture” between decolonial and environmental thought. Environmental studies seeks to undo the hierarchical structures of anthrocentrism, and decolonial studies to unmake the false valorizations Western political and economic subjectivities. Yet their critical projects are at best adjacent, but are more often foreclosed to one another. Ferdinand proposes that “this double–fracture be positioned as a central problem of the ecological crisis.”

Ferdinand’s provocation remains …