New books, reports on environmental and climate justice » Yale Climate Connections
This month's bookshelf highlights writings illustrating the 'inconvenient truth' that communities of color suffer most, and most severely, 'when disaster strikes.' The COVID-19 pandemic has confirmed again a fundamental truth about the Anthropocene: When disaster strikes, the vulnerable take the hardest punches. Communities of color have suffered much higher rates of infection, hospitalization, and mortality, both because they are disproportionately represented in frontline service positions and because their access to routine healthcare is more limited. This pattern has long been observed in...
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