" Climate Injustice burns with outrage [and] is easily read as a take-no-prisoners indictment
of the Trump administration’s celebration of fossil fuels and their complete disregard for the
people who pay with their lives for the burning of those fuels."— Rolling Stone From one of
the world’s most celebrated thinkers on climate change comes a groundbreaking investigation
into extreme weather • “I can’t recommend this book highly enough. It will change how you think
about the most important story of our time."—JEFF GOODELL New York Times bestselling author of
The Heat Will Kill You First Climate change does not affect everyone equally. While many
scientists focus on studying climate change as a physics problem Friederike Otto one of the
world’s most renowned climate scientists sees it as a symptom of the global crisis of
inequality not its cause. In this ambitious fast-paced book she offers concrete examples of
how extreme weather events caused by climate change reveal uncomfortable truths about the
failures of political and social infrastructures around the world. Comparing eight extreme
weather events—including heat waves in North America floods in Pakistan droughts in
Madagascar and wildfires in Australia—Otto reveals how climate change is affecting the world’s
most vulnerable whether they are women working on farms in Ghana during heat waves or elderly
people who died during floods in Germany. In particular Otto examines the Global North’s
extractionist view of the Global South a view that ensures elites are protected while others
bear the brunt of the climate disaster. Climate Injustice shares the stories of real people
shining a light on the real damage inflicted on real lives. Above all it shows how racism
colonialism sexism and climate change are interconnected and how positive changes on one
level can lead to positive effects on another. Authored by the co-founder of World Weather
Attribution a cutting-edge scientific method that pinpoints the role of climate change in
extreme weather events Climate Injustice offers a groundbreaking view on the fires floods
heatwaves and storms that are wreaking havoc at an alarming pace. Inequality and injustice
are at the core of what makes climate change a problem for humanity. Fairness and global
justice must therefore be at the core of the solution. Climate justice concerns everyone.
