In one of her essays, “Climate Change is Violence”, from the book, “The Encyclopedia
of Trouble and Spaciousness“, Rebecca Solnit questions whether it is the local or central forces of mankind that influence the factors that lead to more severe climate change. Solnit states that the poor only act out as a response to the powers of the government and higher authorities, not because of the changing climate. “Climate change will increase hunger as food prices rise and food production falters, but we already have widespread hunger on Earth, and
much of it is due not to the failures of nature and farmers, but to systems of
distribution.” (57) This quote from the essay shows how the climatic factors have already been in to play and will keep getting worse but so will the uneven distribution of resources by the higher powers, which will make climate change that much worse to bear. Solnit implies that instead of fighting for resources and revolting against governments why don’t we team up and stop global warming so we wouldn’t have to suffer the consequences when they do arrive in much worse forms. “Climate change is global-scale violence against places and species, as well as against human beings. Once we call it by name, we can start having a real conversation about our priorities and values.” (59) She adds this at the end of her essay to look into what we should be doing because climate change is against all of us and we should act in unity against global warming and not wasting our time and effort fighting amongst ourselves and making matters worse.

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