Global Perspectives on Climate Justice

Climate change, driven by human activities like carbon emissions and deforestation, disproportionately impacts marginalized groups and international communities, raising crucial issues of climate justice. This course centers on integrating social justice into climate change and broader environmental discussions, examining the unequal distribution of environmental hazards and ethical questions of responsibility and justice. Emphasizing the intersectionality of climate justice, students will explore how race, class, gender, and other social factors intersect to exacerbate environmental inequalities. This course encourages critical engagement with and personal reflection, covering topics, such as the science behind climate change, the roles that social, political, and economic conditions play in understanding climate justice, and the different sociological insights and understandings of climate and environmental justice.