PEACE ST 2B03 / LABR ST 2W03 / WOMEN'S ST (2010/11) Lecture 10: Climate Change and Human Rights

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Lecture 10Monday March 14 2011

PEACE ST 2B03 / LABR ST 2W03 / WOMENS ST 2A03: Human Rights and Social JusticeDr Colin Salter, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University

Climate changeThe person, the animal & the environment

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Security for person can be threatened by a number ofenvironmental factors.John Barry and Kerri Woods (2009)

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Just think of this: your island is below the estimated

tsunami height. Where do you go? You don't. That's whathorror is.

Simon Atkinson (@s_atkinson) , Twitter, 13 March 2011

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Tuvulu

Polynesian Island Nation

Low lying

Disproportionatelyimpacted by climatechange

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Summary

Vested interests in climate change denial?

Social justice implications

What about all species and ecosystems?

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For Wednesday

The environment is a social justice issue. Discuss

What about other species and ecosystems?

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For Thursday

What can be done to remove, or reduce, vested

interests in doing nothing? How can we counter those promoting climate

change denial.

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Citations & further reading

John Barry and Kerri Woods (2009) e Environment in Michael Goodhart (ed) Human Rights:politics and practice, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 316-333.

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Image sources

Mike Konopacki. 2000. If there was justice in the world, 2000 http://www.veggies.org.uk/calendar/2000.htm

Human Rights Champions, 2001 http://invisiblecollege.weblog.leidenuniv.nl/2007/03/11/who-wants-to-be-the-new-human-rights-cha

Which do you pet, which do you eat? http://www.meatout.org/action/outreach.htm

Shane T. McCoy, Detainees at Camp X-Ray, 11 January 2002. Image in the domain image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Camp_x-ray_detainees.jpg

Tepuka Island, Tuvulu http://www.ecardmedia.eu/r_nature_photo_cards_20_white_sand_paradise_beaches_850_tepuka_island_tuvalu_42719.html

Global warming hates kittens ur futprnt too big, August 12 2010.http://globalwarminghateskittens.com/post/45605399/ur-futprnt-too-big

Reference Map of Oceania/Australia http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/oceania_map.htm

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Video sources

An underwater meeting of the Maldivian Parliament (2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zizVixspBEU

Cornell West clip, The Colbert Report, 18 January 2011

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (2009) Please Help Our World,United Nations Climate Change Conference(COP15), December 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGGgncVq-4

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