The project ‘Resist the Global Climate Divide’ unites these perspective, bringing together young activists from around the world to create change in their local communities while connecting their actions to a global struggle. The following toolkit contains projects and activities authored and inspired by their projects with groups and organisations across four continents from the last year. We hope it will energize you and give you tools to work towards this same aim in your own ways.
Our answer to the global climate divide is international solidarity!
Glossary:
Profit-motive: A central law of capitalism. Capital (money invested to make more money) relies on profit, which relies on companies expanding and growing. The profit motive does not relate to human wellbeing. Capitalism: A system based on private ownership of the means of production by a small class of owners and wage-labour for everyone else. It is a system driven by profit, which means goods produced are commodities, that is to say they are produced in the first instance to be sold and only to be used after this. Capitalism is the economic system currently dominant worldwide. Climate crisis: The ongoing crisis of global heating, pollution and human produced negative change to ecosystems worldwide. Climate justice: A view on fighting climate change that sees the necessity of it being a worldwide struggle, one that particularly recognizes the larger impact of the climate crisis on countries of the global south 7
