Climate Change— T Who’s Carrying the Burden? The chilly climates

We share their call for exploring the origins of climate change and the places where its impacts are felt the most, such as the Tar Sands of Alberta, the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, the Canadian North, the coastal regions of Bangladesh, and the island states of the Pacific. [...] In the second part of the book, we change the focus from the global prism of Copenhagen and Cochabamba to the conceptual and local levels of climate change. [...] Such a partnership between the Inuit and the polar bear that has lasted for generations in the North is obscured and margin- alized by the construction of the polar bear as the symbol of the fight against global climate change. [...] Gulliver’s chapter, echoing Osuoka, shows the linkages and inter-relationships between the environmental devastation in both time and place, between Louisiana and the Niger Delta, and between the long-term environmental pollution in New Orleans and the Gulf of Guinea, and the sudden and drastic effects of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. [...] Finally, the contributors urge support for grassroots initiatives, be they in the classrooms of Canadian elementary schools, First Nations communities in Ontario and the North, the freetown of Christiania in Copenhagen, the Transition Towns and Climate Camps in the United Kingdom, or the community-formed foodsheds promoting organic and accessible foods in the Greater Toronto Area.