About the Comic

The comic seeks to introduce the reader to how neoliberalism and the imperialist history and continued interventions of the Global North have created the climate crisis, and continue to victimize the developing world. This complex situation is illustrated in the many issues with the Laiban Dam Project in which, seemingly competing, Chinese and U.S. interests actually overlap because of the nature of their common capitalist and imperialist interests.

The comic wants to introduce readers, particularly readers from the Global North, to the insidious neo-imperialist and neo-colonial policies that their countries and large companies commit in the Global South, and how it is linked to militarism and state-terrorism in the exploited nations. Every event that happens in the comic is referenced from a real-world event that has already taken place. This is to reveal to the reader how insidious neo-colonial and imperialist policies operate in the present time.

With their passion and strong sense of justice, the youth have been the forerunners in demanding climate accountability and action. This is embodied by the fiercely driven Malaika Williams, who, together with her community in Kirtland, Ohio, went toe-to-toe with the single largest polluter in the world, the U.S. military.

The comic wants to show the role of the youth in commanding social change, and that it is the organized mass movements that move history. Every action in the “First World” has an effect on the “Third World”. Oppression begets Resistance, and resistance begets change. What appear to be “intervention panels”, “pockets of resistance”, or mere backdrops to the narrative serve as focal points that steadily build up to reach a crescendo of international social movements.

Emiliana Kampilan wants the to reader to understand the importance of international solidarity and grassroots politics in achieving climate justice. Our best defense against the impending environmental collapse is us, the people. And it is by aligning ourselves with those who are most victimized by the climate emergency, by fighting their fight to decolonize and overthrow the unsustainable capitalist and patriarchal systems of government, that we can obtain climate justice not just for the developing world – but for all.