Green Academics Blame “Climate Injustice” for Energy Price Hardship
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Essay by Eric Worrall
You couldn’t make this up – the very groups whose renewable energy advocacy helped create skyrocketing prices are now blaming the hardship they caused on “climate injustice”.
Climate change hits some of us much harder than others – but affected groups are fighting back
Published: October 14, 2022 10.40am AEDT
Naomi Joy Godden VIce-Chancellor’s Research Fellow, Centre for People, Place and Planet, Edith Cowan University
Kavita Naidu Researcher, Edith Cowan University
Keely Boom Industry/Professional Fellow, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
All around us, climate change is worsening existing disadvantage. In Australia, we need only look to low-income households hit harder by rising energy and fuel prices, and flood responses in northern New South Wales overlooking the needs of people with disability.
These are examples of “climate injustice”. In our research on climate change and social justice in Australia, we have found again and again that people already experiencing marginalisation are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/16/green-academics-blame-climate-injustice-for-rising-energy-prices/