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“Global environmental change should be considered a disability rights issue”, first author Dr Aleksandra Kosanic and her colleagues Dr Mialy Razanajatovo (also University of Konstanz), Dr Jan Petzold (Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), University of Hamburg) and Dr Amy Dunham (Rice University, USA) argue in their recently published Letter in Science, which has since been picked up on by Forbes and Scientific American. The researchers believe that climate change and the resulting loss of ecosystem services will affect the world’s disabled populations disproportionately by exacerbating inequalities and increasing marginalization. Not only may disabled communities experience limited access to knowledge, resources and services, which may prevent them from effectively responding to climate change, they write. Disabled populations may also prove more vulnerable to extreme climate events, as research on Hurricane Katrina has revealed, to the loss of ecosystem services or to infectious diseases.
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Facts:
- University of Konstanz researchers publish high-profile Letter on the topic of climate change in Science.
- Global environmental change should be considered a disability rights issue, climate scientist and first author Dr Aleksandra Kosanic, an Associate Fellow of the University of Konstanz’s Zukunftskolleg, writes.
- Original publication: Aleksandra Kosanic, Jan Petzold, Amy Dunham, Mialy Razanajatovo, Climate concerns and the disabled community, Science, Vol 366, Issue 6466, pp. 698-699, 8 November 2019 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz9045).
- The Letter highlights the fact that disabled populations have mostly been absent from international climate change debates.
- More research urgently required.
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”The Letter highlights the fact that disabled populations have mostly been absent from international climate change debates.”…
Um, which international climate change debate would that be?? I didn’t even know there was even allowed to be a debate. I thought the consensus told us there is no debate needed and we all should believe that man made climate change is happening and we are all going to die.
If anything the CAGW theory is creating ‘mental’ disabilities.
Rice University is lost. Glad my child did not go there for an education.
This “climate change and disability” grievance meme is exactly the kind of identity politics “join in solidarity” movement that flourishes on the left. In the latest Claremont Review of Books, Angelo M. Codevilla nails it:
“For example, though the issue of global warming is irrelevant to blacks as blacks or to women as women, each of these identity groups has taken up that issue as part of their own revolutionary rationale. … [E]very multicultural identity group has taken up every other’s grievance as its own. Effectively, the rest of us are faced by a front—indeed by a party. It should escape no one that this party is merging with, influencing, and may be remaking the Democratic Party into an instrument of revolution.” (CRB Correspondence, Summer 2019)
Disabled-American is comparable to the fractional American (e.g. hyphenated) status. Notably: Fetal-American. Identity is a subset of diversity (i.e. color judgment) and [selective] exclusion.
A famous quote “World Ends, poor affected the most” New York times Note that the ecologists puts everyone in a cave, then complains the lowest rungs will be affected the most.
Users of electric wheelchairs depend on affordable electricity. Users of hand-propelled wheelchairs still depend on affordable energy for the wheelchair-manufacturing plant. Also, lifts.
Blind people use computers and smartphones with screen-readers to know the news, communicate via e-mail, listen to audiobooks, take notes and everything else. Take away reliable electricity and they’re back in the Braille age where a booklet like The Little Prince took up a brick-sized tome and where writing a ten-word-note took ten minutes. They’ll depend on somebody else to read their mail, keep their calendar, read them books, even take care of their bank account. Take away electricity and you take away their freedom.
The deaf-blind can communicate by typing words into a little Braille device connected to their smartphone, which shows the words on the screen for other people to read. Other people can then type text into the smartphone and the secondary device converts them to Braille for the deaf-blind person to feel. Take away reliable, affordable electricity and they’re cut off, unable even to ask for help.
Yes, the climate discussion is a disability rights issue: If the alarmists win, the disabled will suffer like the rest of us and then some.
OK, the time has now come to ask this one simple question: Is there anything . . . anything at all . . . that we CANNOT tie to—and, in some circuitous manner, blame on—“climate change”?
I will not be so bold as to first ask for a clear definition of what “climate change” actually means in context.
Yes climate change won’t be blamed for anything good that happens it is the lefts version of the devil.
It is a law of nature that the authors seem to have forgotten: Any species that cannot change to adapt to/ accomodate physical changes in the environment will die. Period!
Look at the fossil record of species which no longer exist. That is all you need to know.
I wonder how the marginalized disabled will have their lives enhanced by the dumbing down of society as it is shackled and force marched back to the Dark Age. Oh, I forgot. The elites would find them disposable, along with the elderly, the preborn, and anyone else who is inconvenient.
It’s already happened. In some societies, life deemed unworthy by a minority regime. In other societies, life deemed unworthy by a minority of one. All in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, leisure, narcissistic indulgence, social progress, social justice, medical progress, taxable commodities, barefoot and available, and democratic leverage. A wicked solution, albeit to a hard problem.
Stop using the words: sustainable, sustainability, “eco-whatever”, climate, and “center”, there, now that’s disabled.
If you eliminate electric pin ball machines, what are the deaf, dumb and blind kids to do?
considering the entire green alarmist community has an intellectual disability, you can see where this is going …
These people are certainly un-able to get real jobs.
“Global environmental change should be considered a disability rights issue”
Climate change is god’s gift to all goofy leftist issues searching for a reason why….
Who’d have guessed evolution needs / leads through disabilities.
https://www.google.com/search?q=disability+mutation+evolution&oq=disability+mutation+evolution+&aqs=chrome.