Posted on 10/18/2022 7:29:34 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Most of the world’s population has been affected in some way by climate change — 85% of the world, in fact. But the effects of climate change haven’t been equally felt by all. Some communities have seen a slight rise in temperature here and there, but others have had their entire communities wiped out.
As the rise of global temperatures and sea-level continues to affect the world with increasingly frequency and intensity, who are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change?
The answer is clear, according to climate scientists, climate and environmental justice experts and international research efforts on the question. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found in a 2022 report that vulnerability to climate change is “exacerbated by inequity and marginalization linked to gender, ethnicity, low income or combinations thereof.”
These populations are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change because of racism, sexism and pursuit of profits over protection of people, according to Bineshi Albert, co-executive director of the Climate Justice Alliance.
“Due to the continued search for profits by our current economic system and (by) the fossil fuel industry in particular, there are entire neighborhoods that are deemed worthy of becoming sacrifice zones, and this breaks down every time around race, class, and national lines,” she said.
Research also shows that disabled people are more vulnerable to effects of climate change than abled bodied people.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
women and minorities hardest hit.
whoa... climate change is linked to gender?
wow... go figure, i never saw that coming.
Are you talking about Real Climate or the Fake Leftest Climate ? LOL
Who is most vulnerable to climate change?
Not the wealthiest who continue to purchase ocean front property.
Always...no matter the issue.
I’m most vulnerable. There is no CAGW.
Using this partisan generated, fake “emergency” our homegrown commies have decided that the US should quit producing and using petroleum, much to the detriment of my chosen lifestyle of Freedom and The American Way.
People who cannot reason and think for themselves. . . .
Global oligarchs, if people finally stop buying their global climate change bullsh*t.
NUKE THE SUN!!!!!!!!
That’ll stop it......
I’m hoping for Corrupt Media
And Ukrainians.
That's called weather, not "Climate Change".
Those pushing the lie to benefit themselves.
The Tax Payer
I'll bet you didn't. People who use the word "gender" instead of "sex" miss a lot of things.
What a title for someone that knows NOTHING about the environment OR the weather.
They are just agenda-driven policy wonk assholes with a degree in something like Women's Studies or Philosophy of Cockroaches that the US Taxpayer bought for them.
Obama said it: “black lives matter because they are for science and support climate change”
Or how to sucker minorities into funding an elite agenda at their depends.
““Due to the continued search for profits by our current economic system...”
Women, minorities, the poor, and the disabled hardest hit.
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