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.
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.
LA is on fire and it hurts because the blame of climate change is passed around like a flaming rock until it burns all of our hands and we say with remorse, “We should’ve tried harder and we should’ve cared more.”
Can the future of the environment and climate be saved during a Trump II Presidency, especially for those likely to suffer the most? We can point to five areas at risk and why these priorities are crucial for the health and climate protection of historically vulnerable or marginalized groups as well as for ensuring that the green transition prioritizes their needs.
