Climate Justice by Yining Chen

Concept of Climate Injustice

cyl785934105 — 2024-02-29 03:59:07 UTC

Climate justice emphasizes the intersection of environmental action and social equity. It highlights the disproportionate effects of climate change on marginalized communities and the importance of equitable solutions.

Examples of Climate Injustice

cyl785934105 — 2024-02-29 04:01:02 UTC

This website shows some examples that effects of some extreme weather events are not being felt equally. In 2021, it was marginalized communities who were first to be hit by power-outages and “blackouts” caused by winter storms, owing to pre-existing poor housing infrastructure. In Houston for example, some community like Acres Homes, predominantly home to Black and Latinx communities, were among the first to lose their power. It shows socio-economic status and race can affect marginalized people’s ability to respond to and recover from climate disasters.

cyl785934105 — 2024-02-29 04:04:30 UTC

This article shows some evidence that women are more easily affected by climate change. It shows that due to the pressure of securing food, more women would be forced to leave school. Also, women are more vulnerable to face some health problems and less likely to survive.

cyl785934105 — 2024-02-29 04:05:11 UTC

This website gives some data that LGBTQ communities have long been subject to a disproportionate burden of pollution. They not only suffer from discrimination in shelter spaces, they also have higher risk on medical conditions.

Annotated Bibliography for Further Learning

cyl785934105 — 2024-02-29 04:06:47 UTC

Annotation: This article gives a brief introduction of environmental justice and climate justice. With the public movement fighting for environmental justice, some scholars noticed that environmental justice is not the combination of civil rights and environment issue, it is interconnected with other movements such as health and safety movement, the indigenous land rights movement and the public health and safety movements. It (Faber & McCarthy, 2012) demonstrates the complexity and intersectionality of environmental justice. It also explains the evolution from environmental justice to climate justice, which “see climate change as another environmental condition that demonstrates the broader social injustice of poor and minority communities”. (Schlosberg & Collins, 2014) This article also focuses on the impacts of public movement on climate justice. It shows how public movement helps expand the scope of environmental justice and climate justice, and how emphasizes the need for a justice-oriented approach in addressing climate change impacts and policies.

cyl785934105 — 2024-02-29 04:07:21 UTC

Annotation:This article is helpful to learn and understand how climate justice is closely connected to other identity, especially gender. As gender justice has constantly been mentioned in different area, this article highlights the existence of gender-specific barriers and vulnerabilities, as well as the lack of gender considerations in international policy discourse, which indicates that stereotypically ‘masculine’ is still dominate in main discourse. There is an interesting example about gender energy consumption. As women afford more household tasks like cooking and cleaning, they need more “carbon allowance”. However, in government mitigating strategies to carbon emission, it ignores the different demands for energy between men and women, which causes the climate injustice. Thus, this article emphasizes the importance of taking gender into account in policy making to achieve both gender equity and climate justice.

cyl785934105 — 2024-02-29 04:08:02 UTC

Annotation:This article shows how to make climate justice into practice through education in Scotland. It emphasizes on the importance of climate justice education rather than climate change education, which can give a more comprehensive understanding of the climate crisis and promoting a more equitable and effective response to global climate challenges. However, it shows that addressing climate justice in education is challenging due to the complex interaction between social injustice and climate change, and the contested nature of justice itself, which need to explore climate justice through critical educational processes. It also highlights the role of CJE to address domestic social justice issues, such as housing in Scotland, to provide a critical dialogue on the relationship between structure and agency.

Reflection

cyl785934105 — 2024-02-29 04:10:34 UTC

Climate justice is an important concept towards sustainability. It recognizes the disproportionate impacts of climate change on marginalized communities, nations, and individuals, who are frequently those least responsible for the emissions driving climate change. Intersectionality is the main characteristic of climate justice. It means that climate justice shouldn’t be treated as an isolated part, it needs to be addressed along with other social justice. It also reminds me that sustainability and climate change are structure issue but not individual’s choice. To achieve sustainability, both structural social injustice issues and global commitment to the transformation of economy need to be taken into account. Moreover, as social movement play a big role in climate justice, education can also become a method to empower people with awareness, knowledge and skills about climate justice.

Reference

cyl785934105 — 2024-02-29 04:23:24 UTC

Faber, D. R., & McCarthy, D. (2012). Neo-liberalism, globalization and the struggle for ecological democracy: linking sustainability and environmental justice. In Just sustainabilities (pp. 55-80). Routledge.

McGregor, C., & Christie, B. (2021). Towards climate justice education: Views from activists and educators in Scotland. Environmental Education Research, 27(5), 652-668. DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2020.1865881

Schlosberg, D., & Collins, L. B. (2014). From environmental to climate justice: climate change and the discourse of environmental justice. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 5(3), 359-374.

Terry, G. (2009). No climate justice without gender justice: an overview of the issues. Gender & Development, 17(1), 5-18.