No Later Than Now!

A Plea for Climate Justice and Immediate Action

Abstract

Abstract
The focus is on human responsibility for a warming climate, and the consequences a changing climate has already had, and will have in the future, if the warming continues. The concept climate justice (a combination of climate change and social justice) plays an important role in this context and stresses the fact that climate change is not only calling for technical solutions, which will cut down the release of greenhouse gases. Climate justice implies that it is also about human rights for those who suffer the consequences of climate change. A special emphasis is on poor women, who are often those who are affected the most by a warming climate.
A feminist eco-theology calls for a reinterpretation of prominent theological concepts like creation, creator, sin, repentance, and salvation from the perspective of climate change and climate justice. Those concepts play a significant role in theological interpretations of human nature and ideas about God, which again are critical for theological arguments for immediate actions that will promote climate justice.