President Joe Biden (left) greets John Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, on Jan. 27 as he arrives at the White House to speak on climate change. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) In February, Beverly Wright linked the legacy of slavery and the Jim Crow era with energy development. In March, President Joe Biden appointed Wright to his White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. Wright, the founder of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, is joined on the council by Jade Begay of the Indigenous Environmental Network, who co-wrote a 2018 op-ed in EcoWatch contending that climate change is “colonialism” and “cultural genocide.”