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Climate Justice at the Edge of History
This inaugural editorial presents climate change as an ecological and justice crisis shaped by inequality, exploitation, and historical injustice. It calls for interdisciplinary dialogue that centres frontline communities and the Global South in building just and sustainable futures.
Journal of Climate Justice
An International Peer-Reviewed Journal in Environmental Science
Volume 1, Issue 1, 2026
Pages: 7–14
Online ISSN: 3139-8529
Daniel Rathnakara Sadananda
Editor, Journal of Climate Justice
Mangalore, Karnataka, India
Email: drsadananda@gmail.com
Introduction: At the Threshold of the Planetary Age
We launch this journal at a Kairos- a threshold moment- in human history. Climate disruption is no longer a distant future discussed only in scientific reports or policy forums; it now shapes everyday life. Heat reshapes labour and survival. Rivers disappear and return with devastating force. Coastlines retreat, ecosystems unravel, species disappear, and entire communities move under the pressures of drought, flood, fire, conflict, and economic insecurity. A generation now inherits ecological anxiety as part of its emotional landscape. The earth is not simply warming; the living systems that sustain life are being destabilized.
Yet this is more than an environmental crisis. It is a civilizational rupture exposing deep fractures within modern life: extractive economies, colonial inheritances, racialized inequality, and the illusion that the earth exists for endless accumulation. At the same time, this journal does not reject modernity in total. Scientific inquiry, democratic struggles, human rights traditions, and critical scholarship have also made climate knowledge, ecological accountability, and emancipatory movements possible. The task, therefore, is not anti-modern nostalgia, but critical reconstruction: discerning what within modernity must be resisted, what must be repaired, and what may yet sustain just and ecological futures.
The atmosphere has become an archive of industrial ambition; carbon is condensed political history. Creation now groans beneath human excess. But the cry of the earth and the vulnerable is not only a cry of suffering; it is also a cry of knowledge. Frontline communities carry memories, practices, and ecological wisdom essential for climate justice and planetary repair.
The Journal of Climate Justice seeks to bring scientific research, ethical reflection, theological imagination, policy analysis, and the knowledge of communities most affected, into sustained dialogue. It emerges as an interdisciplinary and interreligious platform for rethinking life in the planetary age especially from the perspectives of frontline communities, vulnerable peoples, and the Global South living with ecological harm, where life has been most deeply wounded, resisted, and reimagined.
