by Laura Petersen
Robert Bullard, Ph.D.
The father of the environmental justice movement is excited. From the young people protesting in the streets for climate action and justice, to the White House elevating environmental justice as a key feature of policy discussions across the administration, people are finally paying attention.
“We are lightyears away from 1979,” says Robert Bullard, Ph.D., a distinguished professor of urban planning and environmental policy at Texas Southern University, who has spent the last four decades researching, writing and talking about environmental injustices and inequalities – or, as he likes to say: who gets what, when, where and why in terms of pollution.
Adrienne L. Hollis, climate justice and health scientist
Hollis work: Hollis oversees the development and implementation of programs to measure and track the health impacts of climate change on communities of color and other traditionally disenfranchised groups at the Union of Concerned Scientists, according to the organization s website. She is developing new research to understand how climate change affects health and makes policy recommendations to foster inclusiveness and greater benefits to underserved communities. (Read more here.)
Photo courtesy Adrienne Hollis
Adrienne Hollis, Senior Climate Justice and Health Scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists
The diversity she has observed in her career: Hollis began her research on issues related to health effects from ozone exposure more than 30 years ago, she says. During that time, there was very little or no diversity in related industries or companies, and very little in academic studies in general.
6 Black climate change leaders you need to know: We have to be active. It is literally a matter of life or death
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Bill Gates,
Jeff Bezos, to name few.
CNBC Make It talked to a handful of notable Black climate leaders who have been doing remarkable work in the fight against climate change and its dangerous repercussions for decades. Here s what they have to say about why diversity and inclusion in the field of climate change science is so critical.
Adrienne L. Hollis, climate justice and health scientist
Hollis work: Hollis oversees the development and implementation of programs to measure and track the health impacts of climate change on communities of color and other traditionally disenfranchised groups at the Union of Concerned Scientists, according to the organization s website. She is developing new research to understand how climate change affects health and makes policy recommendations to foster inclusiveness an
10 Black climate leaders fighting for environmental and racial justice
This Earth Day, we re celebrating just a few #BlackandGreen leaders who ve made a mark on the climate movement. (L-R) Environmental activists Leah Thomas
and Rue Mapp; and EPA Administrator Michael Regan (Photo:
Contrary to what we see in the mainstream, the climate movement is not predominantly white. Though a failure to tell a full history and a lack of racial representation within the organizational sphere, persists, the truth is, Black people have long been stewards for the planet.
In celebration of
Earth Day,
theGrio is highlighting just a few leaders who’ve made a lasting impact in conservation, to climate science, government administration and grassroots organizing.
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