Not all environmentalisms are good environmentalisms, and this is nowhere more true than in what some scholars are calling the “Second Scramble for Africa". Neoliberal conservation land grabs, mining rare earth minerals for green energy transitions, and a number of other factors mean that not all 'green' action has a positive value. Offering a critical framework for discourse analysts to get to the heart of this specific complexity, Burnett’s new book (Bloomsbury, 2026) studies the key discursive moves in environmentalist discourses that perpetuate social inequality, putting forward an alternate socioecological approach to avoiding these pitfalls.