Posted: April 24th, 2015

Case Study of a Climate Justice Group/Movement

Case Study of a Climate Justice Group/Movement

Order Description

From the University Professor?
You will be graded on strength of argument (which includes your THESIS STATEMENT, logic, organization, and supporting material), grammar, clarity, and synthesis of course materials.

Conduct a case study of a group or movement dealing with climate change. What are the group?s strategies, actions, and goals and how does it incorporate justice issues into them? How does it engage with the liberal framework for understanding and resolving climate change (for example, does it embrace it, work within it reluctantly, or reject it)? What are the main tasks it needs to accomplish in order to advance its cause? Some suggestions for groups or movements include 350.org, the fossil fuel divestment movement (e.g. Fossil FreeYork), anti-tar sands movements,
Science for Peace, Climate Action Network, Transition Towns, Toronto-Bolivia Solidarity Group, Indigenous Environment Network, Deep Green Resistance.
Students are encouraged to suggest other groups or movements, BUT they must be approved by the instructor.

From me, the person placing the order…
Hence, if you cannot utilize one of the examples provided already, you MUST contact me immediately so I can contact the Professor to be sure it is an acceptable movement.

I will send you?
1. the PowerPoint (Lecture 9) that speaks to this assignment. Be sure to include the necessary elements in the paper.
It?s preamble from the Professor is?
Lecture 9 – Climate Justice Movements and Strategies File: This lecture introduces students to the wider climate movement. It starts by addressing some of the sources of demotivation that prevent us from engaging in movements, and stresses that each of us has a vital role to play, even if our acts seem small from the point of view of grand histories. The lecture then looks at some “movement musts”: 1) Communication, 2) Resilience, 3) Action and uses a class activity to apply them to fossil fuel divestment at York. Finally, the lecture looks at some of the main strategies that the climate movement has been using so far: mass demonstrations (detailed in a guest presentation by two class members on September’s climate march in NYC), divestment, and the various direct-action protests that Naomi Klein (This Changes Everything (2014))describes as “Blockadia.”
2. I will also send Readings the Professor assigned for this lecture. Please reference these readings. I will expect that when I ask for 15 references in my order, some of that 15 will come from each of the readings I provide.
Please do not forget to include a strong thesis statement in your introduction!