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Who Gets Environmental Justice? The Social Problem of Climate Change

Contents of This Chapter:

  1. Learning Objectives and Chapter Overview
    1. Learning Objectives
    2. Chapter Overview
    3. Focusing Questions
    4. Licenses and Attributions for Chapter Overview
      1. Open Content, Original
      2. Open Content, Shared Previously
      3. All Rights Reserved Content
  2. Climate Change as a Social Problem
    1. Extreme Weather Events
    2. Cultural Loss
    3. Climate Change and Poverty: “Those who contribute the least suffer the most”
    4. Licenses and Attributions for Climate Change as a Social Problem
      1. Open Content, Original
      2. Open Content, Shared Previously
      3. All Rights Reserved Content
  3. Environmental Inequality and Culture
    1. Enculturation and Cultural Universals
    2. The Culture Wheel
    3. Unpacking Oppression, Living Justice: Colonialism
    4. Worldview Conflict – Indigenous and Western Perspectives
    5. Colonialism, Capitalism, and Climate Change
    6. Licenses and Attributions for Environmental Inequality and Culture
      1. Open Content, Original
      2. Open Content, Shared Previously
      3. All Rights Reserved Content
  4. Making Sense of the Climate Crisis
    1. What is Environmental Racism, Environmental Justice, and Critical Environmental Justice?
    2. What is Ecofeminism?
    3. What is Youth Climate Activism?
    4. Licenses and Attributions for Making Sense of the Climate Crisis
      1. Open Content, Original
      2. Open Content, Shared Previously
  5. Environmental Justice Is Social Justice
    1. Environmental Justice in Oregon, Then and Now
      1. The Bottle Bill
      2. The Latina Fire Survivors in Southern Oregon
    2. Indigenous Resistance
    3. Paris Climate Agreements
    4. Licenses and Attributions for Environmental Justice is Social Justice
      1. Open Content, Original
      2. Open Content, Shared Previously
      3. All Rights Reserved Content
  6. Chapter Summary
    1. Essential Ideas
    2. Comprehension Check
    3. Key Terms List
    4. Discuss and Do
    5. Licenses and Attributions for Chapter Summary
  7. References

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Inequality and Interdependence: Social Problems and Social Justice Copyright © by Kimberly Puttman; Kathryn Burrows; Patricia Halleran; Bethany Grace Howe; Nora Karena; Kelly Szott; and Avery Temple is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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