What is Climate Justice?
Climate justice protects everyone from the effects of climate change by including representation of indigenous cultures, minorities, and other vulnerable, marginalized communities when looking for solutions.
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (Available on Netflix)
Climate justice protects everyone from the effects of climate change by including representation of indigenous cultures, minorities, and other vulnerable, marginalized communities when looking for solutions.
In Tucson, as temperatures continue to rise, the areas with the least shade and man-made tree canopies are also the areas where the most BIPOC Tucsonans live. There are numerous other examples of climate injustice in the City of Tucson, and the City is implementing policies to address this.
According to IEP, by 2050 1.2 billion climate refugees will be displaced from their homes due to climate disasters.
Climate justice means looking to the past to fix our future: how colonizers tore cultures apart and destroyed land, impacting the biodiversity of Earth today.