“Climate Justice: Conversations Across Barriers and Borders” explores climate change inequality

UConn Daily Campus ^ | April 23, 2018 | By Gabriella Debenedictis

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Climate change experts and University of Connecticut students spoke on defining and solving climate change inequality at “Climate Justice: Conversations Across Barriers and Borders” on Friday.

The event, part of UConn’s spring 2018 Metanoia on the Environment, was moderated by UConn political science professor Dr. Prakash Kashwan and featured a discussion from multiple climate change experts, along with UConn students Rebecca Kaufman, Wawa Gatheru and Evan Fritz.

“Climate change is definitely the most formidable challenge that humanity has ever faced,” Kashwan told the audience. “When talking about facing the issue, we forget that both the causes and the consequences of climate change have implications that are very different for different groups throughout the world.”

Kashwan said the concept of climate justice centers around the fact that climate change has affected some groups of people worldwide more than others, including people of color, women and those living in poverty.

“Talking about climate justice essentially means talking about the discriminatory effects of climate change,” Kashwan said.

Gatheru said she believes climate justice should be seen as a social issue rather than something that can be solved solely with science.

“Climate justice to me as a concept is one that talks of inclusion,” Gatheru said. “Climate justice to me is gender justice, it’s economic justice, it’s racial justice. It’s regularly talked about as a very technical, STEM-focused concept, but we have all the technology in the world and yet we still are not solving our issue with climate, and that’s because it’s a social issue.”

[Bayan]

And here comes more Marxist crap from jackasses purporting to be educators. It’s a disgrace.

[Calvin Locke]

“Wawa” is apparently the nickname of Wanjiku Gatheru , participant/winner of “The Voice of UConn” sing off.

[NEMDF]

From the article: “Climate justice to me as a concept is one that talks of inclusion,” Gatheru said. “Climate justice to me is gender justice, it’s economic justice, it’s racial justice. It’s regularly talked about as a very technical, STEM-focused concept, but we have all the technology in the world and yet we still are not solving our issue with climate, and that’s because it’s a social issue.”

I cannot even begin to figure out what this means. HOLY COW

[oldtech]

Sounds like what they are trying to say is that the places currently experiencing good weather should be making reparations to those areas where the weather is currently bad. This has to be a 2-way street & if it’s done right everyone will know it’s all about the dollar that can be extracted because someone doesn’t like the climate they are dealt.

[ronnie raygun]

So we can safely assume that if the US is enjoying good climate change we may have to allow refugees from other nations who have poor climate change to come in and be subsidized by the American tax payer