The climate crisis is indivisible yet unevenly felt as injustice

Evidence

The two flags in these far-flung underwater scenes may be geographically remote from each other yet serve, as it were, as carbon copies of a common crisis. Together they remind us that the climate crisis is both indivisible and unevenly felt, experienced—especially by some of the planet’s most vulnerable peoples—as climate injustice. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 816

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s eco-justice framing of extraction and colonialism threads across the polyad. — connects to: Climate change converts distributive inequity into a human rights claim — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 295; Environmental injustice includes both disproportionate risk and exclusion from decisions — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 200; Climate catastrophe demands constructing a collective subject that does not yet exist — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 139 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Climate change converts distributive inequity into a human rights claim #corroborates (0.85) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 295
• Environmental injustice includes both disproportionate risk and exclusion from decisions #expands (0.78) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 200
• Global environmental justice movements target misrecognition, exclusion, and incapacity alongside inequity #expands (0.78) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 298
• Climate catastrophe demands constructing a collective subject that does not yet exist #complicates (0.75) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 139
• Environmental injustice persists because corporate power is incorporeal and beyond imagination #expands (0.72) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 475
• Environmental injustice persists without racist intent because bias is structurally embedded #expands (0.72) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 221
• Interference with other beings’ responsibilities constitutes environmental injustice #complicates (0.70) — Kyle Whyte, Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and…, 22