We Have to Wake Up, Humankind! Women's Struggles for Survival and Climate and Environmental Justice
Principles for a Just Recovery from the COVID-19 crisis - Friends of the Earth International
Towards a Decolonial and Feminist Global Green New Deal - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
<aside> 💡 I would like to direct our attention to the overarching solution proposed by the readings around intersectional social movements, and contrast them with the challenges outlined by the readings regarding climate and gender and race. In "Towards a Decolonial and Feminist Global Green New Deal", Muchhala succinctly argues for an intersectional social movement, "The ecological collapse we are experience in climate change is the direct result of an unequal social contract in which these [colonial, neoliberal, capitalist] hierarchies shape our social and economic relations...A decolonial ethos involves delinking from the knowledge systems that are still rooted in the Cartesian paradigm...Ultimately, a new 'social contract' rooted in an ethical commitment to intersectional equity and justice is at the heart of a decolonial and feminist future."
Acha outlines the challenges facing women's and feminist movements for climate and environmental justice from the 2016 AWID Forum in "We Have to Wake Up, Humankind!" Challenges "include recognizing that patriarchy is not just outside, but also within our movements...NGO statuses can create hierarchies in our movements and normalize their institutionalization...we must also centre self-care and the sustainability of our movements in the long term." In "Racism and the Anthropocene", Pulido points to evasion and indifference as forms of racism that more significantly "characterizes the attitudes, practices, and policy positions of much of the Global North toward those destined to die". Additionally, "while more than indifference was needed to create the conditions that produced such racially differentiated vulnerability, it is maintained by indifference."
How can we fight against indifference when it's so systematically baked into our current global power structures? How can we sustain the climate justice movement in the long run when the climate crisis continues to happen at such a rapid pace?
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