The Challenge of Climate Change: Searching for Human Solidarity in a Divided World

Earth is like a living organism made up of interdependent relationships and that we each survive by stewarding the larger communities

of which we are a part.” –Jeremy Rifkin (Rifkin 2009, 615)

“Climate change will be one of the definitive forces shaping prospects for human development during the 21st century. Through its impact on ecology, rainfall, temperature and weather systems, global warm-

ing will directly affect all countries. Nobody will be immune to its consequences. However, some countries and peoples are more vulnerable

than others. In the long term, the whole of humanity faces risks, but

more immediately, the risks and vulnerabilities are skewed toward the world’s poorest people.”