{"id":8549,"date":"2015-12-09T21:22:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T02:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=8549"},"modified":"2015-12-09T21:29:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T02:29:45","slug":"climate-justice-for-dummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2015\/12\/09\/climate-justice-for-dummies\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Justice for dummies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how I would explain the concept of Climate Justice in four easy steps:<\/p>\n<div id=\"js_4c\" class=\"_5pbx userContent\">\n<ol>\n<li>The wealthiest 1% emit 2500 times more greenhouse gases than the poorest 1%.<\/li>\n<li>Those greenhouse gases are in the process of changing the Earth&#8217;s climate to render it uninhabitable for the kind of mix of human &amp; nonhuman species that exists today.<\/li>\n<li>The poorest &amp; most vulnerable will <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2015\/05\/01\/4-noble-truths-of-socio-ecological-suffering\/\">suffer<\/a> the worst &amp; the soonest from that change; many are feeling it\u00a0already.<\/li>\n<li>This sucks &amp; needs to be remedied.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>A few years ago, the concept was largely unknown; a few years from now it will have become the reason for the next global revolution. Climb aboard now or run for your lives later.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2015\/12\/8\/top_climate_expert_crisis_is_worse\">This interview with climatologist Kevin Anderson<\/a> gets at a few of the pieces.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_3x-2\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how I would explain the concept of Climate Justice in four easy steps: The wealthiest 1% emit 2500 times more greenhouse gases than the poorest 1%. Those greenhouse gases are in the process of changing the Earth&#8217;s climate to render it uninhabitable for the kind of mix of human &amp; nonhuman species that exists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[688615,520594,691215],"tags":[123667,123615,399,123625],"class_list":["post-8549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropo_scene","category-climate-politics","category-politics_postpolitics","tag-anthropocene","tag-carbon-capitalism","tag-climate-justice","tag-environmental-justice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-2dT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8271,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2015\/06\/01\/anthropocene-equity\/","url_meta":{"origin":8549,"position":0},"title":"Anthropocene &amp; equity","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"June 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I've reported previously\u00a0on how\u00a0critics see the \"Anthropocene\" concept as overgeneralizing from the causal nuances of actual\u00a0responsibility for climate (and global system) change. 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