Climate Justice
What is Climate Justice?
An examination of the intersection of environmental and social issues, focusing on how climate change disproportionately impacts marginalized communities
A Just Transition. Is it just?
Yeah pretty just.
Which are most vulnerable to sea level rise: coral atolls or small volcanic islands?
Low-lying coral atolls
What communities where disproportionately impacted by Katrina? What term describes this disproportionate impact?
Low-income communities were disproportionately effected, especially those lacking the financial means to evacuate fully.
Climate Justice! :O
What are key principles of Climate Justice?
Equity: Ensuring fair treatment for those least responsible but most impacted by climate change.
Responsibility: Wealthier nations and high-emission industries bear a greater responsibility for mitigating climate impacts.
Human Rights: Recognizes that climate change affects fundamental human rights, including the right to health, safety, and economic stability.
The Just Transition. What is it?
The transition of workers and communities from high-carbon industries to sustainable sectors without social and economic disruption. A superfund for retraining of workers.
What are the main industiries of the region? What about these industires makes them especially sensitive to climate change?
The region's main industries are tourism, agriculture and fisheries.
As resource-based idustiries, they heavily rely on the environment and are thus especially sensitive to its degradation resulting from climate change.
In what way were low income income communities in Puerto Rico similarly impacted by hurricane Maria to those in NOLA impacted by Katrina?
Disproportionately
Low-income residents in Puerto Rico were the last to get access to water, electricity, and medical supplies.
Additionaly, many of these communities primary source of income is in agriculture which was destroyed by the storm.
What were the 3 categories of climate impacts mentioned in Asinget?
Unpredictable Rainfall: Since 2000, changing rainfall disrupted farming cycles, leading to uncertain harvests.
Extreme Weather: Severe flooding in 2007, followed by drought, devastated crops and homes, worsening food insecurity.
Rising Health Challenges: Frequent crop failures and food shortages led to increased disease outbreaks, straining community resources.
What movement used and contributed to the emergence of the Just Transition?
Trade union movements in the 1980s agreed to support the rise of cleaner technologies if job losses would be restored, at least to their previous levels.
Name ways that food security has been negatively impacted on Pacific Islands.
Since food security in the region is also determined by fish supply, the islands are further at risk of artisanal fishery depletion from increased coral bleaching and local development as well as inaccessibility to deep water fish due to changed migration patterns.
What is Green Gentrification, and what did it look like after Hurricane Katrina?
The addition of more environmental amenities and clean up of pollution from a poor community, which attracts wealthier buyers and often results in low income families being priced out of neighborhoods.
After the storm, reconstruction upped prices and pushed displaced low income locals out of former neighborhoods.
Name and explain an example of climate justice from this weeks readings
open
What is the core message of the Just Transition and Labor Unions involved?
An equitable energy shift must balance climate goals with protecting the livelihoods of traditional energy workers.
What percent of global emissions are produced by the Pacific island contires combined.
Less than 0.5 percent
<0.005
!MYSTERY QUESTION!
In Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You, What is more profitable than a human? (Equi____?)
HYBRID HORSE-HUMAN EQUI-SAPIEN
Name and explain an example of climate justice not covered in the readings or our slides.
You tell me.
About how many jobs have been created in renewable sectors?
10 million
Define both of these acronyms
SPRE
PICCAP
South Pacific Regional Environment Programme
Pacific Islands Climate Change Assistance Programme
About how many people are estimated to have been effected by Katrina directly and indirectly?
Closest guess wins
Hurricane Katrina affected over 15 million people
directly through storm destruction and evacuations as well as indirectly thorough rising gas prices and the economy suffering