The "equity landscape"

Climate justice is our last hope

I love Tom Athanasiou’s concept of the “equity landscape,” the notion that we mustn’t just think of one metric of justice in any complex societal catastrophe, such as climate change, but need to identify its local, regional and transforming features. It’s not simply about colonization and extraction plus racial and gender violence, but their intersectionality at different scales. Feminist scholars have explored this historically and structurally in great detail.

I’m interested in looking for practical ways to refine the equity landscape of climate justice and to find ways to fight injustice. Towards this end, I hope to build a collaborative project to “mindmap” the landscape and add in agents, structures and mechanisms needed to achieve climate justice. I invite you to make changes here (I hope this is not paywalled) and also add your comments in the substack.

Some of you are already familiar with the UNFCCC dialogues. But others may have more interesting things to say.