Climate Justice I | People’s movements challenge UN Summit
Moderator’s Note: Returning from our farm in Colorado, loaded with our heritage crop produce and churro lamb, I am able to comment now on some very significant developments related to the global social movements for “climate justice” – a term that has become almost as ubiquitous as “universal human rights”. From an indigenous vantage point, the climate justice movement requires withdrawing from the position of human ecological dominance involving control over all other organisms and “natural” processes; this includes “environmental managerialism”. This is the first in a series of documents and sources related to the intensifying climate justice movement. We start with a few introductory comments and a re-post of a press release from the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA). Sometimes the movement discourse does little to clarify the meaning of concepts like climate justice. The public needs to understand the meaning and I believe that it demands at least two formative understandings about ...