Slide Deck on Climate Justice Week 2019 for the Student Environmental Resource Center at UC Berkeley. These slides are meant to serve as a jumping off point for conversation about Climate Justice.

1. Climate Justice Week
UC Berkeley Fall 2019

2. What is Climate Justice?
Climate justice focuses on the root causes of climate change -
making systemic changes that are required to address unequal
burdens to our communities and realign our economy with our
natural systems.
As a movement, climate justice advocates are working from the
grassroots up to create solutions to our climate and energy
problems that ensure the right of all people to live, learn, work, play
and pray in safe, healthy and clean environments.
(definition by the Alternatives for Community and Environment)

3. Why does it matter?
Translation:
For 2 years we’ve fought to
preserve [our reservation] & these
assholes came in & burned it down.
They are killing our rivers, our
sources of life, & now they have set
our reserve on fire. Tomorrow we
are closing the roads & I want all
the media here to see this.

4. Indigenous folx worldwide
are disproportionately
impacted by climate
change.

5. We can see these
injustices in our own
community where low
income families
struggle to get back
their feet due to a lack
of savings and/or
insurance that has
been created through
a political system that
routinely
disenfranchised their
communities.

6. Environmental Justice
issues exist in the Bay
Area too!

7. In the USA, people of
color and low income
communities are
disproportionately
impacted by climate
change.

8. How you can get involved to be a part of the change:
● Bring in conversations of environmental racism and justice into your
conversations about climate change.
● Attend events (panels, workshops, protests) that aim to create community
resilience around climate justice issues (like the SERC sponsored events this
week!)
● Raise awareness about climate justice.

9. Create a Leaf of Learning!

10. Climate Justice Week Events

11. Access SERC’s Environmental Justice Resource
Folder and Learn More!
https://serc.berkeley.edu
/environmental-justice/