1st Edition

Climate Change and Social Inequality The Health and Social Costs of Global Warming

By Merrill Singer Copyright 2019
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

The year 2016 was the hottest year on record and the third consecutive record-breaking year in planet temperatures. The following year was the hottest in a non-El Nino year. Of the seventeen hottest years ever recorded, sixteen have occurred since 2000, indicating the trend in climate change is toward an ever warmer Earth. However, climate change does not occur in a social vacuum; it reflects... Read more

1. The Physical and Social Dimensions of Climate Change

2. The Rise and Role of Social Inequality in the Production of Climate Change

3. Maintaining Inequality: Ideology of Denial and the Creation of Climate Change Uncertainty

4. The Polluting Elite and the Political Economy of Climate Change Denial

5. Anthropological Lens on Climate Change

6. Changing World of the Indigenous Alaskan Yupik and Iñupiat Peoples

7. Water Vulnerability and Social Equity in Ecuador

8. On the Bottom Rung of a Low Lying Nation: Social Ranking and Climate Change in Bangladesh

9. Haiti: A Legacy of Colonialism, a Future of Climate Change

10. Climate Change, Desertification, and Food Insecurity in Mali

11. The Consequential Intersection of Social Inequality and Climate Change: Health, Coping, and Community Organizing

Biography

Merrill Singer is Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Community Medicine at the University of Connecticut, USA.