Name: Farhatul Basher

ID: 1711355

Course: Environmental Communication

Title: CMN 327

Assignment on Climate Justice:

1. What is Climate justice? Please discuss how marginal people living in coastal areas of
Bangladesh may demand compensation from highly GHG emitting nations under climate justice
framework.

Answer: Climate justice is a term used to frame global warming as an ethical and political
issue, rather than one that is purely environmental or physical in nature. This is done by relating
the causes and effects of climate to concepts of justice particularly environmental justice and
social justice.

Discussion:
Climate justice links human rights and development to achieve a human-centered approach
safeguarding the rights of the most vulnerable and sharing the burdens and purely
environmental or physical in nature.

Climate justice is used with the reference to legal approach which can be achieved through
implication and improvement of legal systems in the region of climate change. Furthermore,
because of severe climate change scenarios, sea level rise poses significant threat that would
inundate 18% of total land of Bangladesh directly impact on 11% of the population.

It is proved that because of enhancing intensity of various extreme events such as: Flood, land
erosion, rainfall, tornadoes, storm surges, salinity intrusion etc. Furthermore, because of the
effects if tectonic subsidence over the past century the sea level rises rate in Bangladesh is
higher than average rate of global sea-rise.

Climate justice is the movement that progress best uses of political economic and political
ecological topics to struggle against the serious threat or risks related to humanity and risks of
other species in the 21st century. Climate justice is the fair way to remove differences in
equality for all people created by climate change and confirm the equal rights through
establishing necessary policies and protect climate changes that eradicate discrimination
differences permanently. Furthermore, climate justice is an issue that finalizes a decision
through conducting discussion on various issues related to climate.

2. Do you support complete ban on commercial whaling? Analyze the case of Japan, Norway
and Iceland.

Answer: Despite an international ban on commercial whaling, whales are still being killed
across the world’s oceans. Many species were devastated by centuries of hunting, and the
international community agreed to bring whales back from the brink of extinction by outlawing
commercial whale hunts in 1986. Yet several countries, including Japan, Iceland, and Norway,
continue to kill thousands of whales each year for profit. And two of those countries, Iceland
and Japan, slaughter whales illegally.

Japan has exploited a loophole in the ban on commercial whaling that allows the lethal take of
whales for “scientific research purposes.” Japan has killed more than 13,000 whales in the past
30 years, supposedly to study them, yet it has produced few scientific studies. The animals end
up butchered and sold on the market.

Iceland doesn’t claim to hunt whales for scientific purposes; it openly kills whales to sell their
meat

Whales play an important role in ocean ecosystems by bringing stability to the food chain.
Removing the top of the food chain drastically disrupts population counts of many other
animals, which can throw the ecosystem off balance, resulting in chaos for men and women
whose job involves commercial fishing.

Whales are very intelligent, and most whaling practices are painful. Hunters use explosive
harpoons to injure the whale until it bleeds out minutes or hours later. Overall, it becomes
abundantly clear whaling is an inhumane practice that should be stopped.

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