Climate Injustice - Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change

"I can't recommend this book highly enough. It will change how you think about the most important story of our time."-JEFF GOODELL, New York Times bestselling author of The Heat Will Kill You First

From one of the world's most celebrated thinkers on climate change comes a groundbreaking investigation into the human costs of extreme weather.

Climate change concerns everyone, but it does not affect us all equally. In this gripping, provocative manifesto, climate scientist Friederike Otto makes the case that the world's most vulnerable populations are the most at risk of being impacted by climate change-though they did the least to cause it.

Comparing eight extreme weather events-including heat waves in North America, floods in Pakistan, droughts in Madagascar, and wildfires in Australia-Otto shows how global inequality is exacerbating the effects of climate change and exposes uncomfortable truths about the failures of political and social infrastructures aro und the world. In particular, Otto examines the Global North's extractionist view of the Global South, a view that ensures elites are protected while others bear the brunt of climate disasters.

An engrossing, deeply moving book, Climate Injustice shares the stories of real people, shining a light on the real damage extreme weather events inflict on real lives. Importantly, it shows how racism, colonialism, sexism, and climate change are interconnected, and how positive changes on one level can lead to positive effects on another. Authored by the co-founder of World Weather Attribution, a cutting-edge scientific method that pinpoints the role of climate change in extreme weather events, Climate Injustice offers a groundbreaking view on the fires, floods, heatwaves, and storms that are wreaking havoc at an alarming pace-as well as an essential change in perspective for how we might finally solve this crisis together.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

Chapter 1: Inequality in the Spotlight

Part I-Heat: How Climate Change Is Killing the Disadvantaged Across the World
Chapter 2: A Continent off the Charts (Canada and the U.S.)
Chapter 3: An African Phantom? (Gambia)

Part II-Drought: How Colonialism and Racism Are Hiding Themselves Behind Climate Change
Chapter 4: When Justice Dries Up (South Africa)
Chapter 5: Poverty: The Root of the Crisis (Madagascar)

Part III-Fire: How Climate Litigation Is Pushing Back Against Disinformation
Chapter 6: The End of the Rainforest (Brazil)
Chapter 7: From Pawn to Game Changer (Australia)

Part IV-Flood: How Local Attitudes and Global Politics Are Saving and Destroying Livelihoods
Chapter 8: Guilt and Responsibility (Germany)
Chapter 9: A Country Drowning in Climate Damage (Pakistan)
Chapter 10: What Now?

Acknowledgments
Notes