Climate change converts distributive inequity into a human rights claim

Evidence

In addition, and related to the indigenous rights issues above, many indigenous communities and nations, especially those in the Arctic, note that they are disproportionately impacted by climate change; the Inuit feel so strongly that they have filed a human rights lawsuit against the USA as the biggest contributor to climate change (Gertz 2005). Again, key here is the language of concern with differential impacts of climate change, as well as proactive suggestions to address inequity in responding to the problem. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 295

Categorization

• XREF: Inuit human rights lawsuit against the US ties directly to procedural/distributive justice vocabulary applicable to EJ litigation and Legal Systems readings. — connects to: The climate crisis is indivisible yet unevenly felt as injustice — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 816; Constructive reparations for climate harm follow from acknowledging its layered distributive causes — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 315; Global environmental justice movements target misrecognition, exclusion, and incapacity alongside inequity — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 298

Broader Connections

• Constructive reparations for climate harm follow from acknowledging its layered distributive causes #expands (0.85) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 315
• Global environmental justice movements target misrecognition, exclusion, and incapacity alongside inequity #expands (0.85) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 298