From the “scientist finding climate change’s smoking gun” ( WIRED ) and a Times 100 Most
Influential Person comes a bracing investigation into extreme weather’s impact on the world’s
most vulnerable. For fans of Naomi Klein and Greta Thunberg. 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 pinpointed the role of climate change in
extreme weather events for the first time 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.
