“Climate justice” is a concept that links woke notions of justice with the concept of sustainability. The global Fridays-for-Future movement officially campaigns for the realisation of climate justice.237 Its spokeswoman Luisa Neubauer sees the roots of the climate crisis in white, male domination over women and in white domination over people of other skin colours.238 In the climate-justice perspective, problems associated with climate change are primarily understood as identity-political conflicts: in symbiosis with intersectional feminism, postcolonialism, and Critical Race Theory (CRT), climate change is to be portrayed as an (existentially threatening) form of oppression by the white system.
Activists for climate justice seek influence within climate research and the media, which makes a serious approach to the climate issue even more difficult in an already highly politicised research field.239 The fight against the consequences of climate change is to be instrumentalised for woke goals (see Transformation). Instead of analysing climate change objectively and seriously, the climate issue is to be propagated as a new-left conflict. Solutions to the so-called climate crisis are not to be based primarily on technical innovation and adaptation. Instead, indigenous knowledge forms, wind and solar energy systems, decolonisation, degrowth, and identity politics are to be combined.240 Overall, the entire economic development is to be oriented towards well-being.