Justice, Hope & Climate Change: Five Dimensions

Hope & Justice Series Post #1.2, Conclusion of Introductory subseries

Where The Three Actions of Justice Are Needed: The Five Dimensions of Justice

In the Climate Movement on all of our Olympian Fields of Action we are achieving the desires and demands of justice by doing the three basic actions of justice: stopping bad stuff, setting wrong right, and making things better and our future come faster and our world more beautiful.

My sense is that there are at least five interrelated dimensions of justice that are at the heart of the Climate Movement and help fuel our passion for action:

• generational

• distributive

• environmental

• climate

• justice for nature.

Each of these five dimensions of justice will be covered in their own posts or subseries of posts.

What’s Covered in the Hope and Justice Series

The Hope and Justice Series will cover the topics listed below. In keeping the length of individual posts manageable, all of these will have subseries, sometimes more than one.

I. Introduction — this 3-part subseries

II. The Who of Justice

III. Accountability: Individuals

IV. Accountability: Big Producers of Polluting Products

V. The Five Dimensions of Justice:

1) Generational

2) Distributive

3) Environmental

4) Climate

5) Nature

Conclusion to This Subseries

The Climate Movement is indispensable to the justice-hope virtuous circle created when we begin to achieve the desires and demands of justice by doing the three interrelated actions of justice in each of these five dimensions on all of our Olympian Fields of Action. (Phew!)

As a movement we must embrace and be committed to working in all five dimensions. We must lead on having the Catalytic-4 create justice. For us to become what we are meant to be — the greatest and most long-lasting social change movement in the history of the world — we must unite everyone concerned for these interwoven dimensions.

Our constructive contribution is not guaranteed. Internal differences over what constitutes justice or how to achieve it could limit our effectiveness in creating justice, and thereby diminish both our hope and our ability to create what we hope for.

We must not allow differences to divide us. Rather, we must work from a place of common ground, of shared values, respecting our differences and turning them into strengths as we learn from one another and grow stronger through the struggle together, making the virtuous circle of justice and hope all the more vibrant and beautiful.

So in all of this who are we, then? We are justice-strivers, hope-makers, and beauty-creators. Join us!

If you are new here check out our Intro Series and our other posts in this Hope & Justice Series. If you like this post, please “like,” comment, and share. And thanks for all you’re doing.