Understand the relationship between climate change/environmental justice and the ongoing global refugee crisis
Understand the relationship between climate change/environmental justice and the ongoing global refugee crisis
A common refrain that emerged from within social movements for global justice over the past two decades has been that “Another world is possible!” Without disparaging the efforts of millions of activists around the world, we’ll be asking how realistic such a hopeful and optimistic sentiment really is this week: Is another world really possible? First, we’ll consider one of the clearest calls to global action on human-centered climate change: the Green New Deal (as presented in Naomi Klein’s recent 2019 book On Fire).
As a counter-weight, we will be reading an anonymous anarchist pamphlet entitled Desert (written back in 2011). It offers a pessimistic but sobering look at the current world through a highly critical lens that both takes seriously the climate science and, in addition, assesses the social and political movements for environmental justice seeking to address climate change. To what degree have our political goals for global transformation been informed by a limited understanding of climate change and capitalism? Should we give up in light of Desert’s critique? Or does it offer important insights into how to approach struggles for social justice differently in the face of climate change? In this section we will also be considering a short commentary on Desert by Alejandro de Acosta.
It is especially important to evaluate these texts in relation to the increasingly severe refugee crisis around the world and how the problem of statelessness is confounded by climate change.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this module, students will be able to:
- Critically assess the Green New Deal as a political response to climate change;
- Evaluate the importance of considering pessimistic perspectives on struggles for social justice and human rights;
- Understand the relationship between climate change/environmental justice and the ongoing global refugee crisis
and write a 350 word summary of the readings and add a question about the topic deriving from the information in the readings.Read the following:ATTENTION: I COPIED THESE LINKS FROM THE MODULE, I DO NOT THINK THEY GO DIRECTLY TO THE CITES. ARE YOU ABLEW TO LOOK THEM UP USING THE INFORMATION WITHOUT THE LINK WORKING.
- Naomi Klein, On Fire: The (Burning) Case For A Green New Deal [Read the Introduction + Epilogue]
- Anonymous, DesertLinks to an external site. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-desert
- Alejandro de Acosta, “Green Nihilism or Cosmic Pessimism” Links to an external site. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alejandro-de-acosta-green-nihilism-or-cosmic-pessimism
- UNHCR, “Figures at a Glance”Links to an external site. https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/figures-at-a-glance.html
- Consider the current crisis of stateless people against the predictions about future climate change and how statelessness is related to struggles for environment justice. How many people will be left homeless, unsheltered and/or stateless by what the anonymous author describes as the growth of deserts?
(Note: the UNHCR figures should not be considered a stand alone reading when posting to the discussion board)
Requirements: 350 WORDS
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