What Climate Justice Means

Thank you, Authority Magazine.

In a recent interview with Authority Magazine, we talked about the importance of sustainability and climate justice. We explored what climate justice means, how businesses become more profitable by becoming more sustainable, the intersections between social, environmental, and climate justice, and how we can operationalize it.

Climate justice is an aspect of environmental justice directly related to social justice.

Climate justice recognizes that the negative impacts of climate change disproportionately affect already vulnerable human communities based on race, gender, age, ability, income, education, geography, and other factors and also disproportionately affect more-than-human communities that have suffered the greatest harm. Environmental justice is concerned with creating an equitable continuum of care for both human and more-than-human communities.

We must move away from a profit-first business model and toward business models that value people and the planet first. Then, profit becomes a byproduct rather than the primary goal.

We discussed the intersections between social, environmental, and climate justice, how a people-and-planet-first model advances diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging,  three ways Save Ohio Bees™ contributes, how communities can get involved, and five empowering things we can do as individuals.

I hope you will read this special feature and let me know what you think.  Thank you for being part of our journey.