Climate justice is a concept [that] recognizes that, although global warming is a global crisis, its effects are not felt evenly around the world. (1)
Though climate change affects everyone, historically disadvantaged people are effected the most - Indigenous people, people of color, women, and disabled people. (2)
The poorest and most marginalized countries in the Global South - Africa, South America, and Asia - are most impacted by global warming. (1)
Pervasive inequality. "Climate change... worsens pre-existing social inequalities stemming from structural racism, socioeconomic marginalization, and other forms of social exclusion." (3)
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