ABSTRACT

2020 has been a year of cascading crises for us all. The COVID-19 pandemic threatened to eclipse the longer term crisis of global climate change. Australia's Black Summer of unprecedented bushfires in 2019-20 and Vanuatu's experience of Tropical Cyclone Harold in April 2020 were both signs of the increasing severity of ‘natural' disasters due to anthropogenic climate change. Combining personal and political reflections on these two disasters, this essay analyses how the discourse of ‘resilience' can deflect blame from the ultimate causes of climate change in increased greenhouse gas emissions and from those countries and corporations who are primarily responsible for the climate crisis. In both Australia and Vanuatu, it interrogates where resilience is located: in government and corporate systems of disaster preparedness and infrastructure and/or the communities and people who are suffering disasters of increasing severity and frequency. Per capita, Australia is one of the most polluting countries in the world and its current retrograde policies on climate change and energy perpetuate both climate crisis and injustice, whereby those in the Pacific who contribute the least to climate change suffer the most. Global inequalities are both cause and consequence of climate change. Fighting climate change must entail fighting against inequalities to achieve climate justice.

摘要

2020年对我们所有人来说都是一系列危机的一年。COVID-19大流行病有可能使全球气候变化的长期危机黯然失色。澳大利亚在2019-20年度史无前例的丛林大火的黑色夏天，以及瓦努阿图在2020年4月经历的热带气旋哈罗德的经历，都表明由于人为气候变化造成的``自然''灾害的严重性日益增加。结合对这两种灾难的个人和政治思考，本文分析了“抵御力”的话语如何将责任从温室气体排放增加的气候变化的最终原因以及那些对气候危机负有主要责任的国家和公司中转移出来。在澳大利亚和瓦努阿图，它都会查询弹性所在的位置：在政府和公司的备灾和基础设施系统和/或遭受严重程度和频率不断增加的灾难的社区和人们中。澳大利亚人均是世界上污染最严重的国家之一，其当前有关气候变化和能源的逆行政策使气候危机和不公正现象长期存在，太平洋地区对气候变化影响最小的国家遭受的损失最大。全球不平等既是气候变化的原因，又是气候变化的结果。应对气候变化必须必须与不平等作斗争，以实现气候正义。澳大利亚是世界上污染最严重的国家之一，其当前对气候变化和能源的逆行政策使气候危机和不公正现象长期存在，而太平洋地区对气候变化影响最小的国家则遭受了最大的打击。全球不平等既是气候变化的原因，又是气候变化的结果。应对气候变化必须必须与不平等作斗争，以实现气候正义。澳大利亚是世界上污染最严重的国家之一，其当前对气候变化和能源的逆行政策使气候危机和不公正现象长期存在，而太平洋地区对气候变化影响最小的国家则遭受了最大的打击。全球不平等既是气候变化的原因，又是气候变化的结果。应对气候变化必须必须与不平等作斗争，以实现气候正义。