What About the Social Aspect of Climater Change?
Recently, I happened to come across a reference to book titled, Where The the Air Stands Still. I came across it while reading an article in The Nation written with a focus on climate change and India. That article is worth a read. I say that even though it's substance was way out of for me considering that the "the climate change movement" looks a lot like the environmental and anti-war movements of past decades - mostly white and relatively affluent. It's striking to me that in the United States social justice groups have joined forces with environmental groups on this set of issues. That's striking because it's likely the case that those lower down the economic strata will be the last to reap any of the fruits of cultural and social changes required to get a handle on the problem of climate change. Here are several examples. 1.The Citizens Utility Board (CUB), a legislatively mandated group advocating for residential consumers of ut...