And it will only get colder, as theories of racial superiority, barely under the surface in parts of the denial movement, make a raging comeback.III, 51 In the grossly unequal world this ideology has done so much to intensify and lock in, these theories are not optional: they are necessary to justify the hardening of hearts to the largely blameless victims of climate change in the Global South and to the predominantly African American cities like New Orleans that are most vulnerable in the Global North.
