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PROJECT!Environmental Justice Project Choice 1: Letter WritingOne of
the key ways an individual can communicate with a person of power is to
write them a letter/email. It is said that for each letter/email a
person in power receives, they consider it to be equivalent to about ten
people who think in a similar way the letter writer. I have attached the instructions for the letter as well as notes from the class. Please use the sources for citations and use MLA for citationsif it could be on a topic that impacts Canada and can address the letter to honorouble Justin TrudeauThank you
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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE EXPLAINED IN THE VIDEO BELOW:
Lesson 1: The Sexism of Climate Change
introduction
Women commonly face higher risks and greater burdens from the
impacts of climate change in situations of poverty, and the majority of
the world’s poor are women. This video from the United Nations shows
the impact climate change is having on women in the Philippines, and
some ways they are trying to adapt.
Sources
https://unfccc.int/gender
Health Impacts of Climate Change
The most significant health concerns related to climate change include
heat waves, floods, ice storms, lack of water supply, droughts, food and
water safety, landslides, epidemics and the resulting need for
vaccinations, and increases in vector and airborne diseases such as
malaria.
The World Health Organization (WHO), in its report “Gender, Climate
Change and Health” reports that:
Many of the health risks that are likely to be affected by ongoing climate change
show gender differentials. Globally, natural disasters such as droughts, floods
and storms kill more women than men, and tend to kill women at a younger age.
These effects also interact with the nature of the event and social status. The
gender-gap effects on life expectancy tend to be greater in more severe
disasters, and in places where the socioeconomic status of women is particularly
low. Other climate-sensitive health impacts, such as under-nutrition and
malaria, also show important gender differences…droughts in developing
countries bring health hazards through reduced availability of water for
drinking, cooking and hygiene, and through food insecurity. Women and girls
(and their offspring) disproportionately suffer health consequences of
nutritional deficiencies and the burdens associated with travelling further to
collect water. (WHO, p. 4)
Although disasters on average kill more women than men, in countries
were women have comparable status to men the death rate is almost
equal between the sexes. The lower the socioeconomic status of women
in a country, the more of them are killed in disasters as compared to men.
Climate change causes droughts and soil erosion, which significantly
affects women farmers, who are the majority of the agricultural
workforce in Africa and elsewhere. It also affects maternal health;
pregnant women are at increased risk of health problems due to climate
change.
Sources
https://www.nwac.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2007-NWACAboriginal-Women-and-Climate-Change-Issue-Paper.pdf
https://www.who.int/globalchange/GenderClimateChangeHealthfinal.pd
f?ua=1
Women Fighting Climate Change
Gender and climate change are closely linked. At first glance this may not
seem obvious. How could fighting for gender equality be a key strategy
to fight climate change? Katharine Wilkinson argues that women and girls
are keys to fighting climate change for three reasons:
1. They are the main small hold farmers in low income countries. This
means they have less access to capital, credit, land rights and training,
tools and technology. This means women produce less food per acre then
men in these countries. With the same advantages as men, women could
produce 20-30 percent more food. More food means better health, more
income etc. We clear forests to grow food, and deforestation increases
climate change. So if we make better use of the land we already have as
farms, we cut down less trees, thus decreasing the impact on climate
change.
2. Educating girls is the best way to increase their chance at equality;
they will have better health, financial security, more power, and the
ability to better adapt to and lessen the impact of climate change. But
how? When girls have more education, they marry later and have less
children. Less people means less impact on the earth because less
resources are used.
3. When women and girls have access to contraception, they also have
less children. As in point number 2, this means there is less of an impact
on Earth’s resources due to decreased population growth.
This TED talk goes into more detail about how empowering women and
girls can help stop global warming, which causes climate change. Take
notes to help you with your learning guide questions for this lesson.
Lesson 2: Environmental Racism
Introduction
Environmental racism describes the tendency for environmental
problems to disproportionately impact non-white/non-European people
around the world. In Canada it is most often First Nations and Inuit who
are most impacted. In the United States, African Americans and Hispanic
people are most impacted. Around the world, non-Western countries
bear the brunt of climate change and pollution caused, in large part, by
the habits and economics of a wasteful developed world.
In the United States, the legacy of slavery and its inherent racism live on
in places like Braddock, Texas.
In Canada, there are similar examples of First Nations living in polluted
areas like Sarnia, Ontario.
Sources
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228226535_Environmental_R
acism_and_First_Nations_A_Call_for_Socially_Just_Public_Policy_Develop
ment
https://www.theobserver.ca/news/local-news/un-human-rights-experthears-chemical-valley-concerns
Global Environmental Racism
When the wealthy developed western world moves its most polluting
industries to the developing world, some people argue this is a case of
globalized environmental racism. In the early 1990s, then Chief
Economist of the World Bank Larry Summers remarked in a private
internal memo that the Bank should “be encouraging MORE migration of
the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries].” Western
countries also dump their toxic garbage “away” to other countries. This is
true of electronics and other toxic waste. For example, charges of racism
in the United States are echoed in the language used to describe
the maquiladora program when corporations from an “economicallysuperior and predominantly white” United States use Mexico as a
“dumping ground for toxin-producing industries.”‘ Wealthy countries with
predominately white populations will pay lower income countries money
to take their toxic wastes. These countries have few environmental
protections, and their populations suffer the consequences.
The following news report tells the story of toxic electronic waste going
from the United States to Africa; the same thing happens in Canada.
Electronic, plastic and other toxic waste is shipped not only to African
countries, but many Asian countries as well.
China recently announced that they are tired of being a dumping ground
for the world and are banning imports of recycled paper and plastic. This
will have impacts here in Canada as we struggle with how to process all
our recycling ourselves instead of sending it to China.
Sources
https://www.planetaid.org/blog/environmental-racism-goes-far-beyondflint
https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=113
8&context=ijgls
Environmental Racism in Canada
Two main groups of minorities in Canada have been affected by
environmental racism: Indigenous Peoples and African Canadians.
Chemical Valley, in Sarnia Ontario, is a well known site of environmental
racism. Here a First Nations reserve saw heavy industrial production
build up right next to it. This case has garnered international attention, as
we can see in this video featuring a protest march against environmental
racism in this area.
The Inuit of Canada are impacted by environmental racism because their
home is disproportionately affected by climate change, and thus their
culture is at risk of dying. The Arctic, their home, is where the damages of
climate change through global warming are the most obvious due to the
fast melting ice and permafrost. This affects both the Inuit and the
animals who call the Arctic home: the polar bear being the most iconic
example.
In Nova Scotia there was a community called Africville, which was home
to a strong group of African Canadians who were largely descendants of
escaped and former slaves. Africville was located on the outskirts of
Halifax close to the city dump, a slaughterhouse, and infectious disease
hospital, to name a few. They were also without the usual municipal
services that served other communities. In 1969 Halifax took over the
city and demolished it to make room for industrial development. This is
another example of environmental racism in Canada’s history.
Sources
https://ecologyaction.ca/AfricvilleReparations
https://www.ecojustice.ca/enviro-racism-we-have-a-problem/
Indigenous Women, Sexism and the Land
Ecofeminists have argued for years that there is a strong relationship
between the exploitation of nature and women. In the early modern era
scientists would talk about raping the earth, and subjugating it to the will
of men. According to Mary Mellor, “Ecofeminism is a movement that sees
a connection between the exploitation and degradation of the natural
world and the subordination and oppression of women. It emerged in the
mid-1970s alongside second-wave feminism and the green Indigenous
Women in Canada and the United States have begun to make this
connection as well, especially in extraction zones:
There is an epidemic of sexual violence being perpetrated against
indigenous women in the Great Lakes region, driven by extreme
extraction in the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota and the Tar Sands of
Alberta. Whether through fracking, or oil sands mining, or mountaintop
removal, the violation of the earth through extreme extraction runs
parallel to the violation of the human rights of Native people. “Violence
against our earth and water is perpetrated on a daily basis, against those
things absolutely vital to our very existence. We can’t be surprised that
people who would rape our land are also raping our people. We must do
something to stop this from continuing,” said Patina Park, Executive
Director of the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center
(http://www.honorearth.org/sexual_violence_in_extraction_zones_past).
In Northern British Columbia, some Indigenous Women are noticing
similar patterns of violence in parts of the province where the economy is
based on the extraction of natural resources. In the following CBC mini
documentary, Helen Knott, a Dane-Zaa/Nehiyaw social worker, poet and
activist, explores the connection between violence against Indigenous
Women and violence against the land.
In 2016, the Globe and Mail published a story about the problems of
violence against Indigenous Women in northern BC extraction towns,
writing that:
Amnesty International is calling for the national inquiry into Canada’s
missing and murdered indigenous women to specifically target violence
tied to resource development in Northern communities, where transient
workers, substance abuse, racism, money and sex collide to endanger
indigenous women and girls.
In a report released on Thursday, the human-rights watchdog details the
myriad effects of large-scale energy projects in northeastern B.C.’s Peace
River region, including the influx of temporary workers – a “shadow
population” of mostly young men whose presence contributes to the
vulnerability of indigenous women and strains social services.
We have seen how women are disproportionately impacted by climate
change; here we see women impacted by the industry built on the
extraction of fossil fuels, which cause climate change. And so it comes full
circle.
Sources
http://www.honorearth.org/sexual_violence_in_extraction_zones_past
http://www.wloe.org/what-is-ecofeminism.76.0.html).
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/northern-resourcedevelopment-boosts-violence-against-indigenous-womenreport/article32660031/
Climate Change Refugees?
Climate change is affecting those in developing countries more acutely
than in places like Canada, even though they are the people who have
done the least to cause the problem. It could be argued that this is
another example of environmental racism; the actions of the (mostly
European) developed countries release many more tons of green house
gases than developing countries, yet the later are the ones bearing the
brunt of climate change. One way they are affected is through being
forcibly removed from their homes and land due to it being destroyed by
salt water getting into their fresh water sources because of sea level rise,
which makes it near impossible to grow food, let alone drink water.
Although climate change is not often a direct cause of displaced
populations (refugees), it is a factor that increases the chance people will
be displaced due to drought, floods, desertification, and conflict over
dwindling food and other resources. Climate refugee is not an official
term, in the way that “refugee” is under the United Nations Convention.
So, someone cannot claim they are refugee due to being displaced due to
climate change….yet.
Environmental Justice
One way to fight environmental racism is to support the environmental
justice movement. Proponents of environmental justice focus on using
the justice system to pass laws that protect all living things from the
impacts of pollution and climate change. An example of this in Canada is
the group EcoJustice, a non profit society that focuses on making sure
environmental protection laws are followed and strengthened.
Bolivia, a country in South America, took this idea even further and
passed the “Mother Earth” Law, which enshrined nature as sacred and
protected by law.
Lesson 3: Agriculture, Pollution and Climate
Change
Cows and Climate Change
You may have heard that burping and farting cows contribute to climate
change. While this can conjure up quite humourous images, it is actually
true. Cows produce methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, in their
intestines as part of their digestive process. It is actually the bacteria that
help break down cellulose the cows eat that produce the methane; The
cows are just releasing it into the atmosphere when they fart and burp.
Other than eating less meat and dairy products, what other ways could
we reduce the impact of cows producing methane? How about feeding
them seaweed?
Great! All our problems solved? As with most ideas we come up with to
reduce climate change, there are pros and cons. What do you think will
happen if we harvest too much seaweed from the ocean and the
ecosystems that depend on it? Can we produce and harvest seaweed in a
way that doesn’t negatively impact ecosystems?
Agricultural Workers
A large majority of people who work on factory farms are people of
colour; many of them are also migrants or temporary workers from
Mexico and other countries in Latin America. They have few rights in the
United States and/or Canada; when you combine this with racism, you
can see how these workers are not well protected.
According to a number of studies featured on the Food Empowerment
Website:
Factory farm workers are consistently exposed to a variety of harmful
gases and particulate matter and also suffer from repetitive stress
injuries. The resulting health effects are well documented and include
chronic aches and pains, respiratory disorders, cardiovascular
complications and premature death.
Exposure to gases created by animal waste, and particulate matter from
chemicals used on the farms and animal feces causes respiratory
problems in some cases, death by asphyxiation due to the release of
hydrogen sulfide gas. Doctors will often encourage workers to find other
kinds of work due to the chronic health conditions they are experiencing.
But most workers feel they are unqualified for other types of work, are
afraid they will be sent out the country and/or fired if they make a
complaint. According to one survey (2007-09), In the United States 38
percent of farm workers do not speak any English and 48 percent of farm
workers do not have legal authorization to work in the United States.
This will make it very difficult to find other work and/or stand up for your
rights.
There is a psychological cost to killing, and people who work in slaughter
houses can experience Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress as a form
of post-traumatic stress disorder. Symptoms include drug and alcohol
abuse, panic, depression, paranoia, dissociation, anxiety, and depression
stemming from the act of killing (Dorovskikh, 2015).
A former hog-sticker (worker who stabs hogs to bleed to death) said, “A
lot of the slaughterhouse hog killers have problems with alcohol. They
have to drink, they have no other way of dealing with killing live, kicking
animals all day long. If you stop and think about it, you’re killing several
thousand beings a day” (Dillard, p. 397, 2008).
In order to cope, workers have to become desensitized to the feelings of
animals and shut down any empathy they may feel. This can extend into
their lives outside of the slaughter house. “Lower empathy in
slaughterhouse workers may be responsible for higher crime rates in
neighborhoods where such facilities are located with some of the
homicides carried out in a manner of animal slaughtering practices
(Dillard, 2008).”
The suffering of non-human animals is directly linked to the suffering of
humans in the world of factory farms and slaughterhouses. We will look
closer at animal rights in the next unit.
Sources
https://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/the-human-victims-offactory-farming/
Dillard, J. (2008). A slaughterhouse nightmare:. psychological harm
suffered by slaughterhouse employees and the possibility of redress
through legal reform. Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy,
15(2), 391-408.
Dorovskikh, A. (Spring 2015) Killing for a Living: Psychological and
Physiological Effects of Alienation of Food Production on Slaughterhouse
Workers; Masters thesis at the University of Colorado.
Agricultural Pollution and Human Health
Conventional agricultural practices, which focus on the use of pesticides,
herbicides, antibiotics, and artificial fertilizers are having a negative effect
on human health.
In many countries, agricultural is the greatest contributor to water
pollution as chemicals are leached from the farms into streams, rivers,
and aquifers (underground water sources). This affects billions of people
around the world and costs billions of dollars to clean up. Agriculture is
also the largest consumer of fresh water, often a rare resource around
the world.
Pesticides and herbicides are toxic to humans, and cause a wide range of
health problems including cancer and birth defects. Agricultural workers
are most at risk for these health complications.
Air pollution caused by agriculture comes mostly from particles of
ammonia becoming air borne and causing lung irritation. Further health
problems are caused by fine particles of dried manure and toxic soils
being picked up by winds and transported through the air.
Although this video focuses on Europe, similar problems exist around the
world:
The over use of antibiotics in industrial animal farming has greatly
contributed to bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics, making it more
difficult for us to fight bacterial diseases.
It is clear that despite all our agricultural advances, we have created a
whole new set of problems to solve. Fortunately there are many
strategies to lessen these impacts; we just to employ them on a wide
scale as soon as possible.
Sources
https://mmp360.com/blog/air-quality
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7150208
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2149972/
http://www.agr.gc.ca/eng/science-and-innovation/agriculturalpractices/water/watershed-protection/agriculture-and-waterquality/?id=1371491033072
http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1141534/icode/
Lesson 4: Climate Change Solutions
The Earth Charter
The Earth Charter was written in 2000 with input from people around
the world. It was formally adopted in a meeting held at the UNESCO
(United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization) headquarters in Paris. It is an expansion of the United
Nations Charter of Human Rights. The Earth Charter includes both
human rights and protection for the whole earth. You are encouraged to
download and read the Earth Charter. See the link below under
“Sources.” It is available in many different languages and is only four
pages long. If the Earth Charter were fully implemented it would bring
together both social and environmental justice for all living things.
The Earth Charter Young Leader (ECYL) Programme is a way for young
people like yourself to get involved in this movement. You can get an
idea of the range of youth involved by checking out the Earth Charter
website. Empowering youth is one of the key strategies of the Earth
Charter.
Sources
http://earthcharter.org/discover/download-the-charter/ (to download
the charter)
http://earthcharter.org/discover/
Sustainable Agriculture
Earlier in this unit we went over some of the main problems with
industrial agriculture: toxic chemicals, air and water pollution and the
over use of antibiotics.
Here are just some of the possible solutions being employed to create
more sustainable agricultural practices.
The first is the use of biochar, which is charcoal.
Another creative solution is to make better use of urban areas to grow food, thus decreasing our
need for large-scale farms.
There are a great many strategies for making agriculture more
sustainable. Organic farming methods, data-driven agriculture, genetic
engineering, small-scale farming, urban farming, are just some of the
ways we can do agriculture better.
Knowledge
There is a lot of ignorance and misinformation about climate change in
the world, so being informed is a key step in coming up with responses to
climate change. As you will learn in unit seven, we are making good
progress on combating extreme poverty, and education for girls (along
with other factors of well-being) have been steadily improving worldwide. What has gotten worse is the state of the environment. Addressing
climate change, pollution and species extinction is our next big challenge
as a species. This is why it is key that we link the well-being of humans
with the health of the planet at large and work for eco-social justice, not
simply social justice.
You can play an important role by being informed and sharing that
knowledge with others. Be informed about the scientific facts of climate
change and pollution, but also be informed about the solutions. If we just
tell people what is wrong, it is very human to simply give up as the
problems seem to large. But if we focus on solutions, and how these will
make our lives better in the long run, we have a chance of getting people
on board.
There are many possible solutions to slowing or reversing climate change
out there. How many do you know about? Check out this TED talk for a
quick run down of some of the best options we have.
Mitigation and Adaptation
If you have been watching the news you have likely heard about
unprecedented heat waves, droughts, floods and extreme weather. In
B.C. we lost a whole town, Litton, to wildfires in 2021. In 2022 Western
Europe they are experiencing their hottest summer since records started
to be kept a long time ago. The longest drought in American history has
been happening. There are many examples of this around the world.
Climate change is really starting to hit hard, costing us lives, property
damage and lots of money. What can we do about it?
There are two response: mitigation and adaptation. According to the
European Environment Agency:
Adaptation means anticipating the adverse effects of climate change and
taking appropriate action to prevent or minimize the damage they can
cause, or taking advantage of opportunities that may arise. Examples of
adaptation measures include large-scale infrastructure changes, such as
building defences to protect against sea-level rise, as well behavioural
shifts, such as individuals reducing their food waste. In essence,
adaptation can be understood as the process of adjusting to the current
and future effects of climate change (European Environmental Agency).
Climate change is global in scale, but adaptations will need to be local as
each area will have its own climate change caused dilemmas to solve.
What will your community need to adapt to, and how?
“Mitigation – reducing climate change – involves reducing the flow of
heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, either by reducing
sources of these gases (for example, the burning of fossil fuels for
electricity, heat, or transport) or enhancing the “sinks” that accumulate
and store these gases (such as the oceans, forests, and soil). The goal of
mitigation is to avoid significant human interference with Earth’s climate,
“stabilize greenhouse gas levels in a timeframe sufficient to allow
ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, ensure that food
production is not threatened, and to enable economic development to
proceed in a sustainable manner” (from the 2014 report on Mitigation of
Climate Change from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, page 4) (NASA).
Here is the latest from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change). It starts with the bad news, then gives us the best science-based
solutions to focus on. There are little specific details mentioned so we
will look at some examples in the next lesson. But this video gives us a
good overview. The main message: We need to transform our way of life
big time, and we cannot rely on individual life style changes to do it.
Sources
https://climate.nasa.gov/solutions/adaptation-mitigation/
https://www.eea.europa.eu/help/faq/what-is-the-differencebetween#:~:text=In%20essence%2C%20adaptation%20can%20be,(GHG
)%20into%20the%20atm
Canadian Examples of Climate Change Adaptation
Canadian towns and cities have been working to adapt to the effects of
climate change in our country. Being a northern country, we are
experiencing a higher rate of warming than other parts of the world, and
are really starting to feel the results. How have we been adapting? Before
we hear about some stories, let’s hear from Trevor Murdoch, who
graduated from a high school on Vancouver Island and is now teaching at
the Royal Roads University:
Now, here are a couple stories about how BC cities and communities are
adapting to the realities of climate change:
If you do a search on YouTube for “BC Adapts to Climate Change” you
will see many more stories. If you want to explore how adaptation is
happening across Canada, check out this interactive map:
Divesting from Fossil Fuels
One strategy to combat climate change has been to “divest” from fossil
fuel companies. This means that individuals, institutions and investment
companies stop investing in fossil fuel companies; they stop financially
supporting the source of fossil fuels.
Fossil fuel companies have a history of spreading disinformation by
supporting the argument that climate change is a myth at worst,
questionable science at best. Once it became clear that the public was
starting to believe the science of climate change, then fossil fuel
companies started to use language that turned the blame onto
consumers, saying that if we did not buy their product then we would not
have a problem. Nowadays, we call this ‘gaslighting” – psychological
manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of time that
causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts,
perception of reality, or memories and typically leads to confusion, loss of
confidence and self-esteem” (Merriam-Webster dictionary). This video
from Vice News goes into more detail on how these companies have
been misleading and manipulating the public:
This report covered a variety of topics related to the actions of fossil fuel
companies in the last few decades, and quite recently. One movement
that was mentioned is how cities are starting to sue fossil fuel companies
for damages and expenses caused by climate change. Recently,
Vancouver passed a resolution supporting this movement:
The motion brought forward by Coun. Adriane Carr was passed in a 6-5
vote and will set aside up to $1 per Vancouver resident — or up to
approximately $700,000 — to support a class action lawsuit against fossil
fuel companies.
“I think it’s time to make sure all the burden of climate change doesn’t
land on local taxpayers and big oil pays their fair share,” Vancouver
Mayor Stewart Kennedy told CBC.
The campaign, launched in June by environmental groups West Coast
Environmental Law and Georgia Straight Alliance, is called ‘Sue Big Oil,’
and its aim is to take big oil companies like Shell and Chevron to court for
their role in climate change (CBC News, 2022)
Teachers in B.C. recently voted to have their pension plan divest from
fossil fuel companies. They see the future, YOU, in front of them every
day and have decided this is one way they can make the world a better
place for both themselves and you. Perhaps they were influenced by
videos like this one, where students in Ontario appealed to teachers to
divest their pension plan from fossil fuel companies.
Considering all you have learned in this lesson, what else could teachers
and schools do to help students recognize when they are being
manipulated by corporations like fossil fuel companies?
Sources
Rhetoric and frame analysis of ExxonMobil’s climate change
communications; article can be read at
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S25903322%2821%2900233-5
https://www.vox.com/22429551/climate-change-crisis-exxonmobilharvard-study
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-councilmotion-climate-change-oil-companies-1.6528285
https://springmag.ca/divest-now-bc-teachers-voted-now-demandingchange#:~:text=The%20BC%20Teachers%20Federation%20(BCTF,resto
rative%20companies%20and%20investments%E2%80%9D%20instead.
Climate Change Careers
Careers in the field of climate change adaptation and mitigation are
sometimes referred to as resilience and adaptation careers.
An instructor in the graduate diploma program for Climate Action
Leadership at Royal Road University (Victoria, BC) says, “we need an
infinite number of people working on climate change adaptation and
mitigation” (Trevor Murdoch, July 22, 2022). Other programs like this are
opening up around the world, and in Canada; Prince Edward Island has a
School of Climate Change and Adaptation (https://www.upei.ca/schoolof-climate-change-and-adaptation). In other words, there are many
opportunities to have a career that addresses climate change, and
programs to train you.
One does not need to attend programs especially made to address
climate change. Educators, web designers, engineers, graphic designers,
program managers, scientists of many different types, solar panel
installers, and many more, can all be involved in climate change
adaptation and mitigation. If you are at all interested, check out the links
below and those in the “Sources” area at the end of the lesson.
Environment and Energy Study Institute writes that, “The Climate Change
Business Journal also finds that there is demand for adaptation services
from a range of clients, including local governments, the federal
government, port authorities, water utilities, and insurance companies”
(eesi.org).
Check out this Youtube video; 60 careers YOU can do to combat climate
change.
Here is one example of a job posting related to climate change, and one
that works from within the industries causing climate change to help
them change (and NOT just greenwash!):
Climate Change and Adaptation Specialist – Vancouver, Calgary,
Toronto, Tucson, Lima, Santiago, Belo Horizonte
Ausenco
Vancouver, BC (July 2022)
Climate Change and Adaptation Specialist – Vancouver, Calgary,
Toronto, Tucson, Lima, Santiago, Belo Horizonte – (AUS0006TO)
Ausenco is a global company redefining what’s possible. Our team is
based across 26 offices in 14 countries, with projects in over 80
locations worldwide. Combining our deep technical expertise with a 30year track record, we deliver innovative, value-add consulting studies,
project delive
