Climate Justice

In a time in which energy poverty and energy displacement threaten to precipitate the greatest humanitarian crisis of our lifetime, and when division and separatism are shamelessly exploited for political gain, climate justice has never been more under threat.

Like class, race and gender, climate change is a human rights issue. Vulnerable and marginalized communities are far more likely to live on the front line of climate change. 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 threads together the eye-opening stories of men and women living in these threatened environments, and shows how the resilience and ingenuity of ordinary communities hold the key to our survival.