While the climate justice movement has highlighted the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation as being the leading causes of the climate crisis thus far, the role of agribusiness and factory farming in particular have received far less public attention. Yet, an upcoming report by Noa Dalzell entitled A Green New Meal: How Factory Farming Fuels Climate Injustice and What We Can Do About It reveals that factory farming in the United States is indeed a major driver of climate change and environmental injustice.
A massive document leak exposed how some of the world’s largest fossil fuel and animal feed-producing nations are lobbying to strip key findings from the latest IPCC climate assessment. The attack on climate facts comes just a couple weeks before the pivotal COP26, raising questions about the summit’s potential outcome during a critical juncture in international climate negotiations.
The corporate-led neoliberal North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its successor, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), amount to a dangerous attack on human health, welfare, and the environment. What can be done to reverse the damage already done and prevent further harm in the face of climate change?
A recent groundbreaking report exposes the pivotal and dangerous role of social media in the spread of climate change disinformation and the fight against real and solutions-oriented information, specifically in the case of the February 2021 Texas blackouts.
On October 1, Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 began to pump nearly one million barrels of oil per day, putting pristine waterways at risk and breaking federal land treaties with the Anishinaabe people of present day Minnesota. First proposed in 2014, Indigenous Peoples and climate justice activists have stalled its completion for seven years. Their fight continues against the destructive pipeline that has violated Indigenous rights, land, and waters.
Recently, we spoke to Ben Levy on his recent efforts concerning the struggle over a proposed liquified natural gas refinery in Tacoma, Washington. Through his involvement in the resistance against this facility, he has witnessed firsthand how imperative it is to keep fossil fuels like natural gas in the ground. Ben sat down with us to explain how this struggle and its geographic location are critical to the climate justice movement.
On September 24, hundreds of thousands of the world’s youth took to the streets across 1,500 cities and towns to voice their frustrations around the lack of urgency around climate change. After a year and a half of grappling with COVID-19, this year’s strike tested whether the CJ movement could maintain its momentum.
Extreme weather events across the globe are becoming both more frequent and more severe. Along with these disasters comes heightened uncertainty, anxiety, and trauma for people living in high-risk regions, and coastline communities are no exception to this rule. The chief culprit? Tropical cyclones.
Joan Fitzgerald is a Professor of Urban and Public Policy at Northeastern University, and her research focuses on urban climate action and strategies for linking it to equity, economic development, and innovation.
Two and a half years ago, the Federal Green New Deal (GND) resolution ignited interest both nationally and internationally in a bold vision for actually achieving climate and equity.
Dr. Jennie Stephens, Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy at Northeastern University, discusses her research, teaching, and community engagement focus on integrating social justice, feminist, and anti-racist perspectives into climate and energy justice.
What exactly is intersectionality? A term coined in 1989, intersectionality has been used in the climate justice movement to describe the relationships between individuals’ unique identities and experiences, especially those of historically oppressed groups, and how they can influence real and positive systemic change.
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