Contents of This Chapter:

• Chapter Overview and Learning Objectives
  • Learning Objectives
  • Chapter Overview
  • Focusing Questions
  • Licenses and Attributions for Chapter Overview and Learning Objectives
• Climate Change as a Social Problem
  • Extreme Weather Events
  • Cultural Loss
  • Climate Change and Poverty: “Those who contribute the least suffer the most”
  • Licenses and Attributions for Climate Change as a Social Problem
• Environmental Inequality and Culture
  • Enculturation and Cultural Universals
  • The Culture Wheel
  • Worldview Conflict – Indigenous and Western Perspectives
  • Colonialism, Capitalism, and Climate Change
  • Licenses and Attributions for Environmental Inequality and Culture
• Making Sense of the Climate Crisis
  • What is Environmental Racism, Environmental Justice, and Critical Environmental Justice?
  • What is Ecofeminism?
  • What is Youth Climate Activism?
  • Licenses and Attributions for Making Sense of the Climate Crisis
• Environmental Justice Is Social Justice
  • Environmental Justice in Oregon, Then and Now
  • Indigenous Resistance
  • Paris Climate Agreements
  • Licenses and Attributions for Environmental Justice is Social Justice
• Chapter Summary
  • Essential Ideas
  • Key Terms Review
  • Key Terms List
  • Discuss and Do
  • Licenses and Attributions for Chapter Summary
• References

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