Making Survival Accessible
Abstract
Many have researched climate change and its impacts on the human experience as the state of the earth worsen. However, like many fields of study, the concept of intersectionality is often missing, meaning certain point of views are not included, such as the ones of people with disabilities. The text below will look at the reasons why disabled people are likely to be more vulnerable to the consequences of climate change, reasons such as the ableist vision of disability as fatal, and the overall deepening of already existing inequalities created by climate change. The text will also examine the way the Human rights of disabled people are likely to be affected as the situation worsen, specifically their right to food, shelter, safety, and movement.
