The escalating conflicts in Gaza, Yemen, and Sudan have had devastating effects on innumerable people, causing widespread death, destruction, and displacement. Georgina Johnson notes that people with pre-existing disabilities—and many who become newly disabled, both physically and psychologically—are disproportionately affected in war zones yet are often overlooked. She also emphasizes that chemical agents are increasingly being deployed as invisible weapons of war. As a result, communities that rely on the land for their livelihoods are left paralyzed, with destabilizing and disabling consequences that can last for generations. Disability justice and climate justice therefore remain central to fostering peace and ending conflict. Curator Lorén Elhili and Dr. Samaneh Moafi, a researcher at Forensic Architecture, explain that land itself has been weaponized in these conflicts and that destroying plant-based ecosystems is a deliberate strategy to disrupt and sabotage local agricultural economies. Consequently, states not only struggle to feed their citizens, but their reduced capacity to invest in vital services such as medical care disproportionately harms people with disabilities. Likewise, Dani Admiss observes that chemical degradation of the environment, driven by capitalism, surrounds us all. Farzana Khan, co-founder of Healing Justice London, adds that the most vulnerable are failed by today’s welfare systems; she calls for life-affirming, land-based community medicine centers to address these injustices.
