jessica bolden went to have a look. mountains of sugar piled high in a french warehouse, harvested in sugar cane plantations across the globe. the sweet cargo travels thousands of kilometers to feed europe. it's a pattern of tre, dating back hundreds of years. and as this exhibition argues that history holds the roots of current climate change. we are history challenges, visitors to take a different perspective to go back in time to when european nations colonized much of the world, extracting natural resources, forcing millions into slavery, and setting up the plantation system. from the colonial period onwards, we had these patterns of movements of shapes, movements of people, movements of product, movements of commerce, movements of communication. if we want to understand what climate change looks like and how brought that about as a human species, we can look at our practices across hundreds of years. works by artists with a personal connection to the developing world. trace the link between empire building and pillaging of the land and the native people. drawings by dutch sailors