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Disability and Climate Change

A Public Archive Project

Plain Language Version
Climate change makes life more dangerous for everybody. But climate change hurts disabled people more than non-disabled people. As disabled people, we have good ideas for living in a changing world. We know how to make the world more accessible for everyone.

Plain Language

What is Plain Language?

By Reid Caplan

Climate Change: A Plain Language Guide 

By Reid Caplan

Disability and Climate Change: Plain Language Version 

By Julia Watts Belser. Plain Language by Reid Caplan.

The Conversations

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COVID-19 as Disability Genocide: Structural Failures in Times of Crisis

Marcie Roth in conversation with Julia Watts Belser

A portrait of Justice Shorter, a Black woman wearing black sunglasses, smiling at the camera. She's wearing a dark professional jacket, with a pale lavender dress shirt. She's sitting in an urban courtyard with skyscrapers in the background.

Racial Justice and Disability Disaster Response: Recognizing Root Causes and the Cost of Chronic Crisis

Justice Shorter in conversation with Julia Watts Belser