This introductory essay is on the idea of Green Abolitionism. It sets out the distinctiveness of abolition as a model for democratic practices. The image I work with to illustrate abolition is the philosopher and artist, Adrian Piper, dancing in a city square in Berlin. The dance is an expression of liberation that sets the tone for my own thinking on supplanting descriptions of sustainability and the positing of freedom dreams is a response to the gradual and deleterious effects of climate change on human existence. I fold in conceptions of fugitive democracy and Native American actions around water protection to flesh out the relation between abolitionist thinking and politics and contemporary ecological conditions and science. I turn to W.E.B. DuBois and his conception of abolition democracy as part of a reimagining of what Reconstruction should have been and use this conceptual work to begin the hard work of breaking various binaries supporting claims about the naturalness and historical inevitability of Capitalism, human exceptionalism and the limitless resiliency of the biosphere. This leads, finally, to the project of creating a new vocabulary for care, political action, agitation, in the Anthropocene/Capitalocene.