From the scientist ‘transforming our understanding of how human-caused global heating is affecting the planet’ (The Guardian) comes a bracing investigation into extreme weather’s impact on the world’s most vulnerable. For fans of Naomi Klein and Greta Thunberg.
Climate change concerns everyone, but it does not affect us all equally. In this gripping, provocative manifesto, climate scientist Friederike Otto makes the case that the world’s most vulnerable populations are the most at risk of being impacted by climate change—though they did the least to cause it.
Comparing eight extreme weather events—including heat waves in North America, floods in Pakistan, droughts in Madagascar, and wildfires in Australia—Otto shows how global inequality is exacerbating the effects of climate change and exposes uncomfortable truths about the failures of political and social infrastructures around the world. In particular, Otto examines the Global North’s extractionist view of the Global South, a view that ensures elites are protected while others bear the brunt of climate disasters.
An engrossing, deeply moving book, Climate Injustice shares the stories of real people, shining a light on the real damage extreme weather events inflict on real lives. Importantly, it shows how racism, colonialism, sexism, and climate change are interconnected, and how positive changes on one level can lead to positive effects on another. Authored by the co-founder of World Weather Attribution, a cutting-edge scientific method that pinpoints the role of climate change in extreme weather events, Climate Injustice offers a groundbreaking view on the fires, floods, heatwaves, and storms that are wreaking havoc at an alarming pace—as well as an essential change in perspective for how we might finally solve this crisis together.
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Climate Injustice 9781778401626 Hardback
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An essential book on climate ethics (and science)
Written in an accessible style, the book combines top notch science with ethical insight and social criticism. I recommend it to everybody who is concerned about the climate crisis and does not give up because of the vastness of the problem.
- Authors:
- Otto, Friederike
- Year Published:
- 2025
- Country of Publication:
- Canada
- Format:
- Hardback
- Illustrations Note:
- Illustrations
- ISBN:
- 9781778401626
- Number of Pages:
- 272
- Publication Date:
- 24/04/2025
- Publisher:
- Greystone Books,Canada
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9781778401626