Green Postcolonialism

The incursion of Europeans into other areas of the world from the fifteenth onwards catastrophically resulted in genocide or the dispossession marginalization of indigenous peoples across the globe. It also caused changes in extra-European temperate as well as tropical environments. Alfred Crosby argues, environmental impact in the form of disease human, plant and animal forest felling, the casual or systematic slaughter indigenous animals, and the introduction of European crops and livestock both prime cause and continuing consequence of environmental change through the post-1492 European diasporic intrusions