Climate Migration
This state is thinking about relocating entire communities due to the effects of climate change.
What is Alaska?
What are sacrifice zones?
Areas where communities face nonstop pollution and climate dangers, raising disease risks over time
(Example- Zona Norte in Tijuana, Redlined neighborhoods in Seattle)
This mid-20th-century housing practice excluded people of color from certain neighborhoods and shaped present-day climate vulnerability.
What is redlining?
Does climate change actually affect health and well being?
Yes, it intensifies gastrointestinal, respiratory and skin infections with contaminated air/water spreads during climate hazards in low-resource areas.
Unlike refugees defined by war or persecution, people displaced by climate impacts are not formally recognized under what agreement.
What is the 1951 Refugee Convention?
Who are migrants, poor families, and unhoused people?
Residents of sacrifice zones, often members who lack documentation, money, housing compromised health and connections to move away to safer areas.
These two climate risks discussed in the paper affect neighborhoods differently across the city.
What are extreme heat and air pollution?
What is climate justice?
Its the justice framework, discussed by Kashwan, explains why environmental harms hit marginalized people hardest by highlighting shut-out decision making and undervalued lives.
What is a delayed feedback loop?
It specifically means there's a time gap between the cause and when you can see or feel the effect.
(Example- slow contamination fixes allows the environmental health concerns to worsen further and health setups often lean on downstream signs like ER visits which kick in post-exposure and disrupt early action)
Neighborhoods with fewer of these tend to be hotter.
What are trees?
What class are we in?
SYN 2 :))
What are live monitoring systems?
Live monitoring systems track environmental contamination in real time, allowing health officials to prevent disease outbreaks before they overwhelm hospitals in sacrifice zones.
The paper argues that climate risks are uneven because of long-standing racial and economic ______.
What is inequality?
What’s a proactive approach method?
Upstream approach- Addressing root environmental causes before diseases develop (Preventative and ideal, what we all ask for)
Downstream approach- Noticing and reacting to health problems only after they happen (what heath systems are currently doing, late indicator and not ideal)