![]() Graça Machel Climate Justice is the antidote for your climate change paralysis. Mo Ibrahim Mary Robinson brings the power of the voice of those heavily affected by climate change-particularly women-to the center of the consciousness of decision makers to propel collective action. I was moved by Mary Robinson's account of amazing women leading the fight for their communities. ![]() Yet it is also a celebration of their fight back. Gro Harlem Brundtland This is a book about people: farmers and activists in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, people whose livelihood is ruined by climate change and climate injustice. They are courageous men and women whose lessons we all should heed. ![]() The stories in this book reveal the lived experience of people doing just that, adapting and strengthening their resilience in the face of climate change. Observer Sustainable development is at the heart of climate justice-protecting the planet, now and for generations to come. The book's central message is a mantra worth repeating: individual local action can grow into a global idea, producing positive change. Richard Branson Robinson's lucid, direct style works because it gives a voice to those who have taken it upon themselves to tackle Earth's most pressing problems. Simply put, climate action must work for the good of all, or it won't work for anyone. ![]() Robinson makes a powerful and compelling case that the climate crisis is a crisis of humanity, requiring far more than mitigation and adaptation, but a renewed sense of shared destiny. Mary Robinson has been their champion for many years, and Climate Justice gives them a voice that we all should hear. Ban Ki-moon, 8th UN Secretary General, Member of the Elders The most dramatic symptoms of our changing global climate-rising sea levels, extreme weather events, increasing desertification, and water scarcity-disproportionately affect vulnerable communities that are often far removed from the causes of human greenhouse gas emissions. Her book inspires & guides us on what to do to protect humanity & our only world. Mary Robinson, as UN Special Envoy on climate change & as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has been a global champion to bring justice for all. Barack Obama Addressing climate phenomena is the way to ensure justice for humanity. "As advocate for the forgotten and the ignored, Mary Robinson has not only shone a light on human suffering, but illuminated a better future for our world." -Barack ObamaĪs advocate for the forgotten and the ignored, Mary Robinson has not only shone a light on human suffering, but illuminated a better future for our world. Powerful and deeply humane, Climate Justice is a stirring manifesto on one of the most pressing humanitarian issues of our time, and a lucid, affirmative, and well-argued case for hope. From Sharon Hanshaw, the Mississippi matriarch whose campaign began in her East Biloxi hair salon and culminated in her speaking at the United Nations, to Constance Okollet, a small farmer who transformed the fortunes of her ailing community in rural Uganda, Robinson met with ordinary people whose resilience and ingenuity had already unlocked extraordinary change. Mary Robinson's mission would lead her all over the world, from Malawi to Mongolia, and to a heartening revelation: that an irrepressible driving force in the battle for climate justice could be found at the grassroots level, mainly among women, many of them mothers and grandmothers like herself. The faceless, shadowy menace of climate change had become, in an instant, deeply personal. Before his fiftieth birthday, he would share the planet with more than nine billion people-people battling for food, water, and shelter in an increasingly volatile climate. Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mary Robinson was struck by the uncertainty of the world he had been born into. Sierra MagazineĪn urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward. The antidote for your climate change paralysis. About the Book An urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward.
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