Climate Change and Social Work: A Critical Green Response

As the climate crisis worsens and ecological destruction looms large, humans are becoming increasingly aware of the interconnectedness between humans, non-humans, and the planet in the search for ways to respond in an ecologically progressive way. Critical green social work encapsulating eco-feminist, feminist materialism, indigenous, and post-Anthropocene social work offers a framework in which the politics of sustainable development become a new pedagogy for cultural, economic, and social change. In acknowledging the interconnectedness and entanglement with nature, rather than being separate from it, a critical green lens requires social work to move away from its historical anthropocentric position with a new eco-centric shift to remind us that we are not separate from the Earth but of the Earth. I argue this to secure the future survival of the planet and support the growing social work scholarship promoting a progressive green politics.