Climate change is viewed as a primarily scientific, economic, or
political issue. While acknowledging the legitimacy of these
perspectives, Kevin J. O'Brien argues that we should respond to
climate change first and foremost as a case of systematic and
structural violence. Global warming is largely caused by the carbon
emissions of the affluent, emissions that harm the poor first and
worst. Climate change is violence because it divides human beings
from one another and from the earth. O'Brien offers a constructive
and creative response to this violence through practical examples
of activism and nonviolent peacemaking, providing brief biographies
of five Christians in the United States-John Woolman, Jane Addams,
Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King Jr., and Cesar Chavez. These
activists' idealism, social commitment, and political savvy offer
lessons of resistance applicable to the struggle against climate
change and for social justice.
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