Družbene in sistemske, ne podnebne spremembe! Zeleno socialno delo

Čuk, Nika (author), Zorn, Jelka (mentor)

Podnebne spremembe so resničnost našega vsakdana. S svojo močjo in vplivom presegajo sfero naravnega in vstopajo v sfero družbenega ter tako povezujejo dve na videz ločeni področji. Po svetu je zanimanje zanje in resnično zavedanje nujnosti ukrepanja, še posebej na ravni politike, zaskrbljujoče pomanjkljivo, čeprav posameznice in posamezniki, aktivistke in aktivisti ter različne skupine in družbena gibanja že desetletja opozarjajo na nujnost ukrepanja. Z neomejeno uporabo fosilnih goriv, zastrupljanjem zemlje, vode in zraka, nenadzorovano sečnjo gozdov in splošnim vodilom Več je več ljudje sami sebi kopljemo jamo, iz katere se bomo težko rešili. Podnebne spremembe nedvomno nosijo človeški obraz, obraz revščine in družbenih neenakosti, vojn in nasilja, izkoriščanja in denarja, lakote in zdravja, migracij in človekovih pravic. Zdi se, da je skoraj ni teme, ki je tako ali drugače ne bi mogli povezati s podnebnimi spremembami. In ravno ta kompleksnost podnebnih sprememb in njen vpliv na življenja ljudi je tema mojega diplomskega dela. Podnebne spremembe ne vplivajo na vse ljudi enako; še posebej ranljive so tiste skupine ljudi, s katerimi socialne delavke in delavci sodelujemo vsakodnevno. Ravno zato je nujno, da se socialno delo vključi v debato o podnebnih spremembah ter s svojim znanjem in izkušnjami prispeva k rešitvam. Rešitve za podnebne spremembe niso samo v zeleni energiji in tehnologiji, ampak predvsem v spremembah v družbi in sistemih. Skozi diplomsko nalogo bom raziskovala, vlogo socialnega dela v boju proti podnebnim spremembam. Primerjala bom poglede različnih avtoric in avtorjev ter jih povezala v smiselno celoto. Na začetku se bom posvetila vprašanju, kaj sploh so podnebne spremembe ter kako vplivajo na naša življenja. V nadaljevanju bom podnebne spremembe povezala z družbenimi neenakostmi, revščino, zdravjem, kapitalizmom, človekovimi pravicami in vojnami. Spraševala se bom, kaj sploh je zeleno socialno delo ter kako se zavzema za socialno pravičnost. Zanimalo me bo, kakšen vpliv imajo podnebne spremembe na prakso socialnega dela (tudi v primeru naravnih nesreč) ter na odnose znotraj nje. Povezava med socialnim delom in podnebnimi spremembami je dokaj novo, a izredno pomembno tematsko področje, saj se bomo socialne delavke in delavci v prihodnosti s posledicami podnebnih sprememb pogosto srečevali.

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: podnebne spremembe, družbene neenakosti, kapitalizem, zeleno socialno delo, človekove pravice
• Work type: Bachelor thesis/paper
• Organization: FSD - Faculty of Social Work
• Year: 2019
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-109092
• Publication date in RUL: 21.08.2019

Secondary language

• Language: English
• Title: Social and systemic, not climate change! Green social work

Abstract

Climate change is the reality of our everyday life. With its power and influence it surpasses the sphere of natural and steps into sphere of social and in this way connects two seemingly separate spheres. In the world, the interest for climate change and the awareness of the urgency for action, especially at policy level, is worryingly insufficient despite the fact that individuals, activists, different groups and climate movement have been warning us for decades about the urgent need for action. With the unlimited use of fossil fuels, poisoning of soil, water and the air, uncontrolled logging and in general living by the motto more is more we are digging ourselves a hole from which we will find it difficult to get out. Climate change has a human face, face of poverty and social inequalities, war and violence, exploitation and money, hunger and health, migrations and human rights. It almost seems like there is no topic that we cannot, in one way or another, connect to climate change. And exactly the complexity of climate change and its impact on people’s lives is the subject of my graduation thesis. Climate change does not affect all people equally, especially vulnerable are those groups that social workers collaborate with on every day basis. For this very reason social work needs to be involved in the debate on climate change, so that we can contribute to the solutions with our knowledge and experience. We cannot look for solutions only in green energy and different technologies, solutions and changes need to be social and systemic. Through my graduation thesis, I will explore the role of social work in the fight against climate change. I will compare the views of various authors and integrate them into a meaningful whole. At the beginning I will be focused on what climate change is and how it affects our lives. Then I will relate climate change to social inequalities, poverty, health, capitalism, human rights and wars. I will present what green social work is and how it stands for social justice. I will be interested in impacts of climate change on social work practice, also in time of natural disasters, and relations within it. The relation between social work and climate change is a fairly new, yet extremely important thematic area that will be affecting social work practice in the future.

• Keywords: climate change, social inequalities, capitalism, green social work, human rights