Can we solve the climate crisis without confronting global inequities?
A recent study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA found that white residents in the USA produce more climate pollution than black or hispanic residents, but black and hispanic people are exposed to more air pollution.
And that is just the USA! Think about the global inequities in the "haves" and the "have nots".
And how are we going to lift people out of poverty without making the climate crisis even worse?
If you are a resident in a wealthy country, is it your responsibility to address both problems at once? And what would that look like in terms of national and international policy?
Environmental Justice >
Climate change and women’s rights
Two big topics tying in together sounds crazy I know. But really it all makes sense. I hate using gender rolls and all of that but women are one of the main way too stop climate chat. If we help give women more proper education, medicine like birth control and stable housing they’d most likely wait to have babies and have less. It should be their choice. If they get amazing education who knows what they’ll be able to do in general future and plus having less people in our planet now sounds like a good thing to me. There’s climate levels rising and lowering, covid, where loosing our oceans, our air is getting worser by the second. We should wait to have children, get married and do whatever and start focusing on our earth since we’re just renting it from the future. And since we’re renting we have to on what we can do now and to do that we have to wait on our happily ever after.
I find this very topical. I'm sure you have heard of the abortion restrictions in Texas? Women in poverty will now have to worry about this medieval law. Think about is, people who may not be able to afford or don't want to spend money on pregnancy test will buy them less frequently,this is now discouraged and if you are "caught" trying to get an abortion 6 weeks after being pregnant. you can be sued and face a fine of $10,000. This can literally kill a person considering they are already struggling financially and health care in america is very expensive, this person would be in screwed over. Now riddle me this, how much is this person going to be able to care about our climate crisis? Nothing about our situation makes any sense, why would this law even exist? It just feels like we are digging our self deeper and deeper into this hole.