Guest Editorial
Climate Justice
Peggy M.
Shepard and Cecil Corbin-Mark
This special issue edited by West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT ) highlights climate justice:
The need to develop studies, policies, and interventions
that address the ethical and...
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Guest Editorial
Climate Justice
Peggy M.
Shepard and Cecil Corbin-Mark
This special issue edited by West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT ) highlights climate justice:
The need to develop studies, policies, and interventions
that address the ethical and human rights dimensions of
global warming, the disproportionate burden of legacy
pollution, the unsustainable rise in energy costs for lowincome families, and the impacts of energy extraction,
refining, and manufacturing on vulnerable communities.
Climate change is the most significant social and political
challenge of the 21st century.
Carbon dioxide emissions
caused by human activity are and will continue to impact
the earth’s natural systems through global warming and
sea level rise for generations to come.
Climate researchers report that vulnerable communities, even in the most prosperous nations, will be the first
and worst hit.
In this country, the most impacted areas
will be communities-of-color, Indigenous Peoples, and
low-
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