Growing Divides between Establishment and Climate Justice Proponents: A View from the Extremes of South Africa

Abstract The failure of elites negotiating global public goods – e.g., ending COVID -19 “vaccine apartheid,” forging geopolitical stability, reducing inequality, regulating international financial flows, and avoiding world recession is nowhere more dangerous than the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s refusal to cut greenhouse gas emissions deeply fairly. “Climate Justice” principles are ignored, so divisions grow between what ruling consider possible, activists demand. This evident in a South Africa suffering among world’s highest levels, extreme weather events, worst neoliberal, carbon-addicted corporate power bloc determining most policy terrain. But forcefully resisting.