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Social injustices Flashcards

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What does rendering technical mean?

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To oversimplify something that is actually more complicated and top-down

Creates “solutions” to superficial problems and depoliticises them

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Why is climate justice important geographically?

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Causes and impacts are uneven

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How does the climate justice movement compare with the envi justice movement in 1960s USA?

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Builds on the environ justice movement, but now has a global remit, increasingly in the global south too

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What is climate colonialism?

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  • A misinterpretation of climate justice
  • Forces poorer countries to deindustrialise and limit fossil fuel emissions when they lack the technology to develop by an alternative means
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Why is climate justice often referred to as a “triple injustice” (CITATION?)?

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  1. Hits the poorest
  2. Who feel the most impacts
  3. At a greater cost
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What are the 4 pillars of climate justice outlined by Newell et al 2021?

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1) Distributional (costs and benefits)
2) Procedural (equitable and fair)
3) Recognition of different perspectives
4) Intergenerational

(Newell, et al., 2021)

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What is a good source for the UN polluter pay principle?

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Adger, et al., 2006

Also UNFCC 1992

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What is a good example of climate colonialism?

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  • REDDT+ (Citation??)

- Inhibited development

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Who has raised the issue surrounding individualist approaches to climate justice?

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Okereke and Coventry 2017

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Besides localised impacts, what other reasons are there for moving beyond a state focus for climate change?

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Corporations that are ultimately responsible for climate change

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Besides forcing people to do things that they cannot afford, why is an individualist solution to climate injustices flawed?

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Makes people selfish and self-centred so that they do not cooperate as a group

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What is the first example of environmental injustice movements?

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N. Carolina PCB protest 1982 in Warren County

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What would be a novel approach to studying environmental injustice?

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Understanding new conceptualisations of nature, urbanity and wilderness

Based on the works of R Williams, Cronon etc

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What are 3 other ways of thinking about envi. injustice?

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  • Environmental Racism
  • Pollution of Colonialism (Libiron, 2021)
  • Social/racial segregation mirroring pollution (Bullard, 2006)
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How does environmental injustice compare with envrionmentalism?

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Looks at the localised impacts of the environment on communities, not distant national parks and wilderness places

(di Chiro, 1996; Cronon, 1996)

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Who is a major proponent of envi justice movement?

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Rob Bullard (2006)

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What was a problem with the obsession with wilderness of the 60s envi movement?

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  • The socio-ecological trouble with wilderness
  • Wilderness as a privileged landscape (Cronon, 1996)
  • Not an intersectional movement
18
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What is a contemporary example of environmental injustice?

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Cancer alley, USA (Raised by Biden 2021; covered by Davies, 2009)

19
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What is a local example of privileged environmental injustice?

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  • Fen Ditton, Cambs against honey pot hill sewage works
  • Funny how wealthy seek to preserve their assets (i.e. not allow depreciation of house prices) only when really threatened (same with Gatwick expansion etc)
  • Only the wealthy have the time and money to protest
20
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What is the temporal issue surrounding environmental and climate justice?

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The slow violence effect (Nixon, 2011)

21
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What is a critique of slow violence?

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A spatial element - boiling frogs

People in the west insulated from the impacts by distance as well as time. A cognitive dissonance

(Highlighted in Beardsley 2012)

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What is especially troubling about the slow violence of environmental deterioration?

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It becomes normalised as there is no sudden spectacle

The communities are seen to be riddled with cancer cases because of compositional, not contextual factors (c.f. Bambra, 2019)

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Who has raised awareness of intergenerational effects of environmental inequalities

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Walker et al., 2005

Also enhancement of issues if left unadressed

24
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Who discovered a correlation between % ethnic minorities and levels of pollution in USA?

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USA Racial Justice Study (1987)

25
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What are two examples of noise pollution?

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  • Rogers, 2014 on Boston airport traffic

- Mitchell and Dorling, 2003 for air pollution in UK

26
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What is an example of a study into green space access?

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O’Brian and Morris, 2014 in the UK for different marginalised groups

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What are the two biggest limitations to environmental justice?

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1) Misses big picture with solutions and impact assessments (esp. spatial and temporal scales)
2) Arbitrary levels of acceptable environmental quality - issues of triage

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Why does Libiron suggest that pollution is inherently colonial?

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  • Not just capitalism
  • Pollution duped elsewhere, with locals having no say
  • A form of expropriation by dumping
29
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Who has pointed towards a decolonised and pluralist conception of environmental injustice?

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Coolsaet, 2020

Also Álvarez and Coolsaet, 2020

30
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What 3 reasons do Álvarez and Coolsaet, 2020 give for decolonising environmental justice?

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1) “Environment” and “Justice” based on western ideas
2) Participation can be limited by material restrictions
3) Knowledges from global south overlooked

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What is a good quote about toxicity and slow violence?

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“Toxic pollution is a form of violence” (Davies, 2019)

32
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How are structural forces/violence linked to slow violence?

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Structural inequality can exacerbate effects of slow violence in a reinforcing cycle with epistemic inequalities

Davies, 2019

33
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What does McCauley and Heffron (2018) overlook in their historiography of a just transition for climate?

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The critical Marxist analysis into the limitations of technology-driven solution that secures jobs

McCauley and Heffron (2018)

34
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What source links environmental justice with political ecology?

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Svarstad and Benjaminsen, 2020

Covers role of power in participatory approaches etc

35
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How many countries have balance of emissions and vulnerability to climate change?

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Just 28 (16%), as of 2010 (Althor, et al., 2016)

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What is a major flaw with Althor, et al. (2016) analysis into climate change inequalities in terms of emissions and vulnerability?

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Fails to look at the historical responsibility in terms of cumulative GhG emissions and creating vulnerability through colonialism

37
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What source has studied the epistemological flaws of climate science?

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O’Lear, 2016

Doesn’t say science is wrong, but rather that it paints an ill-informed picture geopolitically

38
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What is one of the major problems with climate justice?

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  • Hard to define boundaries

- Measures - yearly? Cumulative? Aggregate? Per Capita?

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