Social Injustice

Question 1

UK Climate Injustice:

Answer 1

Lower-income/disadvantage group CBDR, yet taxed most proportional to income, with little say.

Question 2

Climate Vulnerability Determined By:

Answer 2

Personal, social, and environmental factors.

Question 3

Example of Climate Injustice:

Answer 3

Elderly more vulnerable to extreme heat and cold

Question 4

Climate Injustice on Income:

Answer 4

Socioeconomic/geographical factors create spatial vulnerability: lower-income groups in poorer housing, disproportionately affected by coastal flooding.

Question 5

Systemic Racism Examples:

Answer 5

Housing inequality, healthcare, education, criminal justice, environmental outcomes

Question 6

Anthropocene Critique:

Answer 6

Not human-influenced, but race/white supremacist-centered, Eurocentrism at heart.

Question 7

Orbis Spike Hypothesis

Answer 7

Dip in atmospheric carbon with sequestration after land decultivation after American indigenous colonization

Question 8

Slave-sugar-coal nexus

Answer 8

Conversion of enslaved labour energy into sugar, fuelling industrial Europe.

Question 9

Underlies ‘Anthropocene’ concept:

Answer 9

Marked by mid-20th century industrialization, built on racial slave labour

Question 10

Anthropocene geological/racial traces:

Answer 10

White supremacy, indigenous disposession, primitive accumulation, plantation economy

Question 11

‘Blood Carbon’

Answer 11

Carbon credits generated through violence towards indigenous people, with profits going to those managing those protected areas.

Question 12

Example of blood carbon:

Answer 12

Kenyan ‘Northern Rangelands Trust’, with countless testimonies from indigenous peoples: forced dissapearance and extrajudicial executions.

Question 13

Why carbon credits do not work?

Answer 13

Bought out by corporations to paint themselves as neutral, yet sequestration in most is unreliable.