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Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Glasgow on Saturday in noisy and colorful protests, calling on global leaders to take action drastic enough to match the scale of a climate crisis already wreaking havoc on parts of the globe.
According to some organizers of the protests, more than 200 events were planned around the world, with more than half of that number in Britain. Organizers claim that the wide range of groups with different agendas are united by a common commitment to what they call climate justice. The protests illustrate how the battle to curb climate change has become an umbrella for a growing protest movement that aims to put global leaders under pressure for a broad range of causes, including racial justice and income equality. (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/06/world/europe/cop-climate-protests.html
Racism is “inexorably” linked to climate change because it dictates who benefits from activities that produce planet-warming gases and who suffers most from the consequences. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2020/06/29/climate-change-racism/)
A research published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences found that black and Hispanic communities in the U.S. are exposed to far more air pollution than they produce through actions like driving and using electricity. By contrast, white Americans experience better air quality than the national average, even though their activities are the source of most pollutants. Another paper in the journal Science found that climate change cause the most economic harm in the poorest counties of the US; many of those places are home to mostly people of colour. (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aal4369).
Global warming has very likely exacerbated global economic inequality, including ∼25% increase in population-weighted between-country inequality over the past half century. This increase results from the impact of warming on annual economic growth, which over the course of decades has accumulated robust and substantial declines in economic output in hotter, poorer countries—and increases in many cooler, wealthier countries—relative to a world without anthropogenic warming. Thus, the global warming caused by fossil fuel use has likely exacerbated the economic inequality associated with historical disparities in energy consumption.
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