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Intersectional Environmentalism Is the Urgent Way Forward Leah Thomas, founder of the Intersectional Environmentalist platform, on how BIPOC voices in the sustainability movement have been silenced—but lifting up those voices is the only way to protect people and the planet. By Leah Thomas Getty/ Morgan McMullen In 2017, I was the only Black person in my graduating class to receive an environmental science degree. At times, I felt the pressure to silence parts of my racial identity. Because of the lack of representation in my studies and even in my textbooks (despite the many voice...
The urgency of the Black climate agenda Vox.com 7 hrs ago Jariel Arvin © Steve Sanchez/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images The Rise and Resist activist group marches to demand climate and racial justice in New York, NY, on September 20, 2020. For a long time, the face of the climate movement was a white one. But with growing public awareness of climate change came the recognition that its impacts are disproportionately experienced by Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color. The problem, according to many Black climate advocates, is that awareness is not ...
Steve Sanchez/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images For a long time, the face of the climate movement was white. But with growing public awareness of climate change came the recognition that its impacts are disproportionately experienced by Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color. The problem, according to many Black climate advocates, is that awareness is not enough. Tamara Toles O’Laughlin is one of the best-known advocates for what she calls the “Black climate agenda”: a movement that seeks to correct the failures of the climate movement to include Black people and th...