‘Climate change [will have] severe ramifications on gender inequalities.’ - Felipe J. Ruiz and Juan P Vallejo, 2019
XR women take to Waterloo Bridge. Photo Credit: Jonathon Brady.
DAY 1. How did I not know that women and girls will be disproportionately impacted by climate change and the ecological crisis?
DAY 2. How did I not know that ‘extreme weather’ has already displaced a record 7 million people?
DAY 3. How did I not know that the ecological crisis will cause mass displacement of people around the world?
DAY 4. How did I not know about intersectional environmentalism?
DAY 5. How did I not know the extent of my privilege?
DAY 6. How did I not know that women and girls around the world have to walk for miles to find food, water and shelter?
DAY 7. How did I not know that these miles get longer and longer as climate change gets worse and worse?
DAY 8. How did I not know that my plastic bags travel to Vietnam to be ‘recycled’?
DAY 9. How did I not know about world nature day?
DAY 10. How did I not know that the Western world makes trash invisible?
DAY 11. How did I not know about world ocean day?
DAY 12. How did I not know about the correlation between race, poverty and environmental injustices?
DAY 13. How did I not know that we are not all in the same boat, but we are riding through the same storm?
DAY 14. How did I not know that social media is saturated with voices fighting against the ecological crisis?
DAY 15. How did I not know that the impact of the ecological crisis will not be equal?
DAY 16. How did I not know that to produce trash is a privilege?
DAY 17. How did I not know that the world has six months to avert climate crisis?
DAY 18. How did I not know that to collect your trash is to see it and realise habits must change?
DAY 19. How did I not know the difference between climate change and the ecological crisis?
DAY 20. How did I not know the amount of trash I personally consume?
DAY 21. How did I not know that by typing this to you, I am releasing more carbon dioxide into the air?
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