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Plastic pollution is one of the most widespread and difficult forms of pollution that humanity faces. Among the most used materials globally, plastics are also responsible for contaminating our soil, water, and food - threatening the health of all life on earth. Author Christian Mutiga Kibaara explains that as plastic consumption grows, so must the duty of producers to internalize their impact through Extended Producer Responsibility.
While the global growth of renewable energy and technology can epitomize the hope for a more sustainable and just future, there is a tension between this growth and its impacts on environmental and public health. South America perfectly encapsulates this rift, as the continent is home to a significant share of the world's critical minerals necessary for the 21st century's renewable technologies.
Saas, or Software as a Service, although perhaps outwardly appearing as a green industry, relies on energy-hungry data centers and fuels e-waste production. Evolving at a rapid rate, especially with the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI), Saas companies are becoming primary 21st Century contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and global climate change. Equipped as they are with plentiful financial and political power, SaaS companies can and must take ownership of their climate impacts.
We need a climate and environmental justice movement that is imaginative, intersectional, international, intergenerational, and..... filled with vibrant illustration! Introducing four exceptional movement designers for hire.
Beyond the use of fossil fuels for heating and transportation, it is critical we examine the other global industries powered by fossil fuels. We must especially consider how toxic chemicals and climate change are interconnected. One way to achieve this is by examining our critical industrial sectors — specifically, petrochemicals and cement — that are at the forefront of toxics production in both the United States and other nations. Alongside iron/steel and aluminum, petrochemicals and cement form the top four “hard-to-abate” industrial sectors that present a set of special challenges in the pursuit of decarbonization.
As the climate crisis around the world escalate, the insurance industry finds itself in its own growing crisis. Originally created as a safety net for communities post disaster, insurers are now struggling with skyrocketing claims, costly premiums, and their own fossil fuels investments. The contradictions of the industry profiting from climate risk and its causes, reveal the human costs of insurance inequities.
Just Wanted an Extra-Hot coffee’: What ex-TC Alfred Taught me About Home Resilience and Vulnerable Households. Initially, caffeine withdrawal felt like the gravest injustice. However, the next four days revealed a deeper truth – disasters instantly strip away comfort, exposing how unprepared we truly are when essentials vanish.
The reliance on traditional cooking fuels such as firewood and charcoal remains widespread across Africa, symbolizing both energy poverty and climate injustice. Despite progress in the global energy transition, many people in Africa still cook with dirty, inefficient fuels, leading to severe health risks and environmental harm. These communities are excluded from clean cooking solutions and bear the brunt of the climate crisis, making this an urgent climate justice issue.
Carrots from Colombia, bananas from Honduras, grapes from Peru–open your fridge and you see the global food system. Walking into a grocery store, we are bombarded by choices: organic, locally grown, locally sourced, etc. The freedom to choose where our food comes from is a luxury that many of us take for granted. In the U.S., locally grown food is often more expensive and reserved for those who can afford it.
Haiti's compounding environmental crises offers a case study in the fallout of long-term colonial exploitation, economic marginalization, and plunder by global corporate interests. The country also exemplifies how climate justice approaches are a holistic response to deep and systemic inequities.
Offering insights from three Indigenous land and environmental defenders in Ecuador, this piece portrays their deep cultural, ecological, and organizing knowledge while highlighting their invaluable contributions to fighting the climate crisis and the obstacles they still face today.
People with disabilities are too often rendered invisible in the movement to creating a more just and sustainable future - but climate change is not just about rising temperatures or extreme weather events. It is about how these changes affect individuals and communities differently. Accessibility goes hand in hand with sustainability, there is no climate justice without disability justice.
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