Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future

An urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward.

In a time in which energy poverty and energy displacement threaten to precipitate the greatest humanitarian crisis of our lifetime, and when division and separatism are shamelessly exploited for political gain, climate justice has never been more under threat.

Like class, race, and gender, climate change is a human rights issue. Vulnerable and marginalized communities are far more likely to live on the front line of climate change. In Climate Justice, Mary Robinson relates the eye-opening experience of people, including herself, whose encounters with the all-too-real impact of climate change have driven them to action. The stories she tells of their strength and optimism against all odds are uplifting. Here are ordinary women and men moved to extraordinary shows of courage to save our swiftly shifting planet--from Sharon Hanshaw, the Mississippi matriarch whose campaign began in her East Biloxi hair salon and culminated in her speaking at the United Nations, to Constance Okollet, a small farmer who transformed the fortunes of her ailing community in rural Uganda. With deep knowledge and powerful empathy cultivated over years as a leader and champion for global social justice, Robinson shows how the resilience and ingenuity of ordinary communities hold the key to our survival.