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So happy I read this so early in the year and already have my five-star read and probably one of my favourite reads of 2020 already! Mary Robinson is just a gem!
In Climate Justice, Mary Robinson talks to different people (mostly female, POC and from indigenous tribes across the world) about the actual effects they have seen, lived through and battled of climate change and how it has changed their daily way of life. From women in Chad who have suffered both flooding and drought, and people believing the devastation was the wrath of God as they had no idea what climate change was, to an indigenous tribe in Eastern Europe whose reindeer are starving due to the effects of freezing and refreezing ice on tree lichen. The book also takes a look at working class people who depend on the fossil fuel industry to live, and how these people can be brought into the renewable sector without being left behind and left jobless/penniless, as well as privileged women in Australia who do their best everyday with a few household changes.
Mary Robinson says in this book, and in other media, that climate change is a human rights issue when you see how those most effected are generally people in lower class communities, and often those in POC communities and women fighting for their families. Women are agents of change, and can be so powerful with their voices when they speak up and begin to enact change. This book is full of stark realities about climate change, but is also full of hope, feminism and justice.
I loved reading the different stories - from islands in the Pacific, to New Orleans and Australia (it was particularly poignant reading about how bushfires a few years ago sparked change knowing now the devastation that has happened in recent months). I found each story was no more important than the next and everyone had so much important things to say, and how easy it is for those speaking to be drowned out by world leaders' voices - people from whose country wreck the most damage and are at most cause to what is happening in poorer, smaller countries.
A great book about climate change, and the people we need to start fighting for as well as ourselves.
In Climate Justice, Mary Robinson talks to different people (mostly female, POC and from indigenous tribes across the world) about the actual effects they have seen, lived through and battled of climate change and how it has changed their daily way of life. From women in Chad who have suffered both flooding and drought, and people believing the devastation was the wrath of God as they had no idea what climate change was, to an indigenous tribe in Eastern Europe whose reindeer are starving due to the effects of freezing and refreezing ice on tree lichen. The book also takes a look at working class people who depend on the fossil fuel industry to live, and how these people can be brought into the renewable sector without being left behind and left jobless/penniless, as well as privileged women in Australia who do their best everyday with a few household changes.
Mary Robinson says in this book, and in other media, that climate change is a human rights issue when you see how those most effected are generally people in lower class communities, and often those in POC communities and women fighting for their families. Women are agents of change, and can be so powerful with their voices when they speak up and begin to enact change. This book is full of stark realities about climate change, but is also full of hope, feminism and justice.
I loved reading the different stories - from islands in the Pacific, to New Orleans and Australia (it was particularly poignant reading about how bushfires a few years ago sparked change knowing now the devastation that has happened in recent months). I found each story was no more important than the next and everyone had so much important things to say, and how easy it is for those speaking to be drowned out by world leaders' voices - people from whose country wreck the most damage and are at most cause to what is happening in poorer, smaller countries.
A great book about climate change, and the people we need to start fighting for as well as ourselves.