OUR VISION
The Anthropocene demands a new global political project: to end human-caused extinctions, prevent dangerous climate change, save the oceans, support vulnerable multi-species populations, and restore social justice. To survive, we must ask questions that are intimately connected to capitalism, modernity, and oppression. We must ensure that our diplomacy, our politics, and our institutions are open to those who will bear the brunt of ecological change.
— “Planet Politics: A Manifesto from the End of IR”
The PPI is a virtual institute dedicated to connecting advanced academic research in ecological politics and law to real-world struggles for political change, improved governance, and ecological survival.
We are a community of scholars, lawyers, activists, and citizens committed to advancing the fight against climate change, challenging environmental racism and injustice, supporting indigenous peoples and environmental defenders, exploring new modes of multispecies ethics, and imagining novel constellations of law, politics and governance that can chart just and sustainable futures for all the Earth’s beings.
While we share a commitment to an Earth-centred ethos and environmental justice, as scholars and citizens we like to debate and disagree. Our proposals, writings and causes are offered as spurs for further learning, dialogue and deliberation - a modest step toward a global and ecological parliament of things.