This essay examines how contemporary critical environmental and decolonial frameworks and their emphasis on local knowledge can be relevant to European landscapes. This question arises in response to today’s multiple crises, which make it evident that the focus on progress and economic development,supported by geoengineering or terraforming, accelerates environmental catastrophes and reproduces social injustice. Many scholars trace the historical roots of the climate crisis to Western modernity, with colonialism, imperialism and capitalist expansion bringing prosperity to European landscapes, leading to extraction, exploitation and destruction in other parts of the world. Now European landscapes also face the consequences of planetary ecological degradation. In light of this crisis, critical and decolonial frameworks point toward alternative ways of relating to the environment, including pre-modern, non-Western and local perspectives. How can these perspectives stay relevant for European landscapes without overshadowing the historical and systemic unevenness entailed in their shaping? I examine this question by focusing on a well-studied edge of Europe – the Dutch coast, specifically the Wadden Sea area – exploring the potential of theory to build reparations, resistance, and solidarity, and discussing its implications for spatial practices