Author Archives: Rachel Lim

Rachel is a Hakka-Malaysian artivist and MA student in Political Science at UBC, where she collaborates with the Human Rights Collective as an ORICE Scholar. She holds an Honours B.SocSc. in Conflict Studies and Human Rights with a minor in Indigenous Studies from the University of Ottawa. Their research interests include critical Indigenous theory, resource-based conflict (extractivism, land and water defenders, genocide-ecocide nexus), anti-colonial resistance movements, and memory justice. You can find her channeling anger into action at a protest, creating visuals for human rights and climate justice campaigns or connecting with other diasporic communities at the grassroots level.
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There is a Climate Emergency, and It’s Called Colonialism.

Rachel Lim February 26, 2026
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When governments declare a climate “emergency,” they rarely name the real emergency at play – colonialism. Crisis-oriented language transforms centuries of dispossession, extraction, and ecological destruction into a sudden problem of “urgency” rather than one of accountability. In doing so, it risks reproducing the very logic that produced such consequences in the first place. (read more...)

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