“System change, not climate change” – Analyzing the elements of counter-hegemonic climate justice mobilization

Abstract

Climate justice combines threats of anthropogenic climate change with concerns about social justice and the larger impacts on people with fewer resources and disadvantaged populations. Adherents of the concept reject the unsustainable and unjust functionings of the global capitalist system and advocate for a socially just transition towards an ecological economy. The movement behind climate justice is engaged in a Gramscian counter-hegemonic struggle over how climate change should be understood and addressed. If the movement will be able to provoke radical changes in global climate governance will depend on its capability to mobilize an increasing amount of activists behind its cause (...)