Movements Within Environmental Justice

     The eight websites that we were assigned to take notes on all revolved around a shared topic, climate change.The website explotorium's Global Climate Change Explorers discusses climate change, the atmosphere and their relationship to carbon dioxide. The text reveals that although CO2 is a natural part of our atmosphere, humans have been producing excess amounts of it and in turn it is causing heat to stay trapped in our atmosphere and affecting the chemistry of the oceans.In the source they discuss how climate change could affect our future and how scientist are trying to predict climate patterns in the next few decades using models. The next websites focus on the changing pattern of diversity or lack of diversity in environmental justice and  major environmental organizations.The articles such as "Ghostbusters in Environmentalism: Black Women (Re)Shaping Environmental Justice" and "How Young Feminists are Tackling Climate Justice in 2016" give insight on the crossroads of feminism and environmental justice,acknowledging influential figures and giving insight on how women and young girls within ethnic groups are affected by climate change.An example of climate change affecting women was shown in the source,"'Hey ho, Patriarchy has got to go!' Women for Climate Justice at the People's Climate March", in which the People's Climate March was held in  New York City.

     I believe that the sources were very insightful on the affects of fossil fuels on the atmosphere and the bringing up the topic of diversity and intersectionality in climate justice. I was very concerned at first about the statistics of ethnic minorities within large environmentalist organizations, but the articles that came after served to reassure that the marks of ethnic people within the environmental movement. I found it really interesting to see everyday people, activist, politicians and public figures, as climate justice leaders illustrated as superheros. The articles also made me realize that gender and climate change go hand and hand for women in the south and indigenous women within the agriculture industry.

VOCAB:
ecofeminists- A term was first used by Francoise D'Eaubonne is a movement that establishes a connection between the exploitation of nature and the exploitation of women.(wole.org 2018)
exacerbated- means to worsen a situation
nexus- a connection between several concepts
ocean acidification- a word used to describe the shift in the chemical balance of the ocean due to the absorption of CO2