Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis (Penguin Random House) by Tao Leigh Goffe explores the malign influence of European-driven colonization on the Caribbean, and its direct effects on our present climate catastrophe. Combining history with reportage, Dark Laboratory maps the origins of this predatory extraction to Columbus’ 1492 advent to Guanahaní in the Bahamas, which he labelled San Salvador. Acts of fiscal profiteering, at the risk of Black and Brown bodies, are explored throughout the text, which culminates in a radical vision for people of the global majority.