By Pratima Gurung, Penelope J.S. Stein, and Michael Ashley Stein
The climate crisis disproportionately impacts marginalized populations experiencing multilayered and intersecting oppression, such as Indigenous Peoples with disabilities. To achieve climate justice, it is imperative to understand how multiple layers of oppression — arising from forces that include ableism, colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism — interact and cause distinctive forms of multiple and intersectional discrimination. Only by understanding these forces can we develop effective, inclusive climate solutions.
