Ciani-Sophia Hoeder: Ökorassismus

How white people are destroying our world - Who is paying the real price for our environmental crisis?

Author Ciani-Sophia Hoeder in conversation with Sarah Zerback about the links between environmental injustice and racism.

Whether a person lives next to a landfill site or in the countryside, indigenous communities are dispossessed in favor of Western consumption or entire groups of people are displaced by "green gentrification" - none of this is a coincidence, behind it is eco-racism. Progressive global warming also systematically affects people of color, while the white West benefits from a lifestyle that is bringing the world to the brink.

Ciani-Sophia Hoeder impressively shows why bamboo toothbrushes will not save the world and what is behind "green Nazis". A book about the often invisible connections between ecology and racism - stirring, personal and highly topical.

Ciani-Sophia Hoeder is a freelance journalist and founder of RosaMag, the first online lifestyle magazine for Black FLINTA* in Germany. She studied politics and journalism in Berlin and London. Two of her books have been published by hanserblau so far, "Wut und Böse" (2021) and "Vom Tellerwäscher zum Tellerwäscher" (2023).

Sarah Zerback is an editor at Deutschlandfunk. In the Zeitfunk editorial department, she presents all daily news programs, from "Information in the Morning" to "Journal before Midnight". She is also a host on the "Der Tag" podcast team.

An event as part of the MINT Festival of the Cologne City Library

With MINTköln 2025, we want to look at the subjects of mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology from a creative perspective. This time it's all about shapes. Because shapes play a central role in the STEM fields. Whether geometric figures, patterns, symmetries or the structure of nature and technology - shapes are the building blocks of our understanding of the world.