Martinican/French environmental engineer Malcom Ferdinand distinguishes between environmentalism and decolonial ecology in his research-packed book replete with literary allusions. He uses the slave ship as an extended metaphor while arguing for the creation of a world ship that will save us from ecological collapse. While alluding to literary figures such as Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad, Derek Walcott, and Alice Walker, Ferdinand acknowledges the environmentalism of pivotal thinkers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Henry David Thoreau who were both influenced by maroonage.  Drawing on research from Latin American thinkers, Ferdinand highlights the weakness of environmentalism and its inability to grapple with social justice.  To his argument, he adds a wealth of Africana philosophy from writers such as Du Bois, Sankara, CLR James, Aime Cesaire, and many others. His book shows us that the task of decolonial ecology is to hold antislavery, anticolonialism, and environmentalism together. It is this type of ecology that disrupts the current colonial inhabitation of the earth we have inherited from European colonization. In the Americas, colonial inhabitation is characterized by land grabbing and clearing, the massacre of Amerindians, violence against Amerindian women, private ownership of land, the establishment of plantations, and an exploitation system based on masters and servants. Ferdinand reminds us that on the current plantationcene in which the earth is subordinated to the plantation, we are all “Negroes” – human beings detached from ancestral affiliations, land, and nature. To lessen pollution and circumvent global warming and extinction, we must form a cosmopolitical relationship with non-humans and the landscape in order to transform the current colonial paradigm. Reading this book is a step in the direction of that transformation.