Scottish Poet Jackie Kay’s verses convey how anti-immigrant, homophobic and nationalist mentalities are interlocked with environmental destruction and damage. “We close the borders, folks, we nailed it, No trees, no plants, no immigrants” are the first two lines of her poem Extinction. Published in 2015, it’s hard not to connect Kay’s lines to the narrative of exclusivity that led to a 2014 Scottish referendum to stay within or leave Britain. The country voted “no” and stayed within Britain, just two years before the shocking Brexit leave vote. Photo credit: The Guardian
