The term “climate justice” strikes the normal ear as woke duckspeak, if not moonbattery sarcastically pushed to the point of parody. That’s because normal people are uninitiated in the credenda of progressivism. “Climate justice” has a meaning, but it is only comprehensible through advanced indoctrination. For that, we have institutions like the University of Sussex:

The BA in Climate Justice, Sustainability and Development, which will begin in 2026, will equip students with a unique blend of expertise in climate politics, activism, and environmental human rights. This will be combined with the practical green skills – the know-how and abilities needed to work in ways that help protect the environment – needed to drive real-world change.

It’s nice to know educrats have their feet firmly planted on the ground and will offer “practical green skills” so that graduates can impose their will on climate fluctuation.

Kidding aside, the practical application of such a degree is to secure a career as a bureaucrat. Sussex grads can be thankful they don’t have DOGE over there.

Barks Geert De Neve, Head of the School of Global Studies at Sussex:

“This course … will provide a unique opportunity for students to combine their passion for tackling the climate crisis with the skills and knowledge required to lead in the fight for sustainability and justice. It reflects Sussex’s long-standing commitment to educating students who can drive positive global impact.”

They will have no impact on the climate, which will fluctuate regardless of the fashionable left-wing poses they strike. But as future bureaucrats, they can aspire to impact the future by deepening Europe’s economic malaise through ever more punitive regulation of the energy sector.

Even without spending years of time and tens of thousands of pounds, Sussex is willing to provide a hint regarding what “climate justice” means:

Climate justice, the focus of this course, addresses social equity, historical responsibility, and economic shifts in climate change. Emerging from civil society movements in the 2000s, it now shapes debates in the UK Parliament and UN. It is crucial for policymakers, NGOs, activists, and businesses.

Science is not mentioned because this is a BA, not a BS, despite being comprised entirely of BS. Climate justice has nothing to do with science; it is a means of imposing left-wing globalism.

On a tip from Steve T.