#14: Climate justice for all: intersectionality and climate movements
Description
While climate change impacts everyone, some communities are disproportionally affected over others. Therefore, climate movements have put focus on the concept of ‘intersectionality’ in their fight against climate change. Clear examples of this are the chant of ‘Climate Justice is Racial Justice’ that gained traction during the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, and the explicit connection between climate action and support for Palestine during Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza. However, the latter also showed that there can be internal contention in climate movements as some argue to separate broader politics from addressing climate change.
Eugene Nulman and Daniela Chironi share their insights on this topic in this episode to help us understand how climate change and intersectionality are linked, and what it means for climate movements.
Music: ‘Lazy Walk’ by Cheel.
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