Sociology · Boston College
Climate change, driven by human activities like carbon emissions and deforestation, disproportionately impacts marginalized groups and international communities, raising crucial issues of climate justice. This course centers on integrating social justice into climate change and broader environmental discussions, examining the unequal distribution of environmental hazards and ethical questions of responsibility and justice. Emphasizing the intersectionality of climate justice, students will explore how race, class, gender, and other social factors intersect to exacerbate environmental inequalit