Climate justice 

Climate change is one of the key ethical debates being discussed by our generation now. Nevertheless, this is a problem that is unfortunately misinterpreted as just one of the aspects of the environmental movement. It is not only about melting icebergs and growing warmth around us. Climate change is about justice, equity, respect, and human rights, as it should be about giving everybody a right to live in a healthy environment, breathe clean air, and drink water no matter where they were born.

In order to realise the real essence of climate change and the effect it is having on the planet, it should be acknowledged that climate change does not affect everyone equally. Climate change affects those people who have done the least to create the current situation, while others are faced with some problems. A farmer in rural Nepal cannot use his harvests owing to the unstable monsoon season, but he is not guilty of the emissions that cause an unstable climate condition. A family in coastal Bangladesh has never built industries which caused the rising sea levels. Indigenous communities, which maintain forests, have never created a system that would destroy these forests.