6 Climate Change and Environmental Justice Flashcards
What is the most significant predictor of a person living near a contaminated site?
Race
How much of population living near toxic waste sites are people of colour?
56%
What % of people of colour’s claims against polluters are denied?
95%
What is environmental justice?
Fair and equal distribution of social and material advantages, meaningful participation in decision making processes, acknowledgement of social, cultural and political differences
What are the rights all people are entitled to?
Life, bodily health, emotion, senses and control over ones environment
What is intersectionality?
Acknowledgement that bodies of different ages, races, abilities and genders are impacted by their environment in different ways and how they interact with each other
When did intersectionality begin?
With the Black Feminism movement in the US during the end of the 20th century
What are the factors of inequality?
Race, age, gender, (dis)ability, sexual orientation, religion, class, marital status, economic well being, head of household
Intersectionality and climate change?
Extreme climatic events exacerbate existing marginalisation in a general trend - but there are layers of vulnerability (intersectionality)
Which parts of the population are impacted worst by climate change?
Elderly, homeless, ethnic minorities, poor
Children under 15 most likely to die from env factors
What do these vulnerabilities mean for people in day to day life?
Affects their access to water, forestland, credit, education, healthcare, freedoms
What does coastal flooding in Gujarat India mean for farmers?
Salt is leaching into the soil and underground aquifers
Flooding threatens local lives
Who is worst impacted by this threat?
Women - lack education of how to deal with salt in soil, and have no clear land titles
Lots of them can’t swim, and are not included in meeting about evacuation
Don’t have access to mobile phones so don’t benefit form the text alert early warning system
Who is impacted by the 2016/2017 Dakota Access Pipeline?
17 million people live on the Missouri River
Pipeline threatens water supply
Threatens to destroy native burial grounds of the local indigenous tribes
Protests to the pipeline?
Pipeline went through Standing Rock Indian Reserve, the 6th largest Native American reserve in the US, home to a number of indigenous tribes
>400 tribes protested here for 6 months
Outcome?
Pipeline was built anyway - operational from May 2017
Why was the flint river so polluted?
Motors dumping pollution in the flint river
Run-off from road salts built up in the pipes
Pipes themselves were made of lead and the water itself contained 8x normal levels of chlorides and lots of other corrosives
What was the social impact?
Locals contained a high proportion of people of colour and people from lower classes 9000 children (a generation) were exposed to lead poisoning The swith coincided with an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease (a severe form of pneumonia) that killed 12 and sickened at least 87 people between June 2014 and October 2015
What are the barriers to girls education globally, but especially in developing countries?
The low values of girls education
Higher value of child labour/ domestic work/ bride wealth
Early sexual engagement , sexual abuse and teenage pregnancy
Early and forced marriage
Period poverty
Poorly equipped institutions and inadequate facilities
Statistics marriage?
11% of girls drop out of school due to early marriage
1/2 of girls are married by 18
Statistics pregnancy?
34% of girls drop of out school due to early pregnancy
What are the household reasons of girls oppression in Uganda?
Unequal division of labour within household
Bride wealth payments turn girls in commodities
Lack of voice in decision making in the family
Violence related trauma
What are the educational reasons?
Gender biased ideologies
Teenage pregnancy and early marriage
Gender insensitive school environment
HIV and AIDs
What are the economic reasons?
Exclusion of girls in ownership of/control over assets
Diminished agency and increased dependence on men
Parental underinvestment in girls education
Limited ops for vocational training
Limited access to credit
