Toxic Tropics: A Horror Story of Environmental Injustice with Jessica Oublié

Jessica Oublié is the author of Tropiques Toxiques, recently translated into English as Toxic Tropics. Toxic Tropics a documentary comic book about the chlordecone scandal in Guadeloupe and Martinique, in which France purchased and used a pesticide that had been banned in the US because of health concerns. Today, people from both islands suffer from exorbitant rates of cancer. To make matters worse, the chemical is estimated to stay in the soil for hundreds of years. Oublié’s book bears witness to the ramifications (personal, financial, agricultural, legal) of this environmental disaster.