Climate Change and Climate Justice

  • Course Number: 0877
  • Subject: Philosophy
  • Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  • Credit Hours: 3
  • Description:

    The impacts of climate change fall disproportionately on frontline communities, including the Global South, communities of color, the poor, women, and the young, including college students. How should the impacts and burdens of climate change be distributed? How do environmental loss, damage, and danger transform issues of diversity and oppression in the 21st century? What kind of response to climate change would be fair? How much must each of us change in order to make a fair response possible? This course offers an accessible, in depth introduction to ethical problems about climate justice, with attention to environmental racism, indigenous rights, gender, age, and other aspects of diversity, and to the role of individuals and institutions in climate change. Students cannot receive credit for this course if they have successfully completed PHIL 0977.

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