Black and Brown communities have always been on the front lines of the struggle against pollution.
in Brooklyn, New York. As white people and wealthy conservation groups began waking up to the realities of pollution and climate change in the 1970s, Black and Brown people were already fighting for clean air, clean water, and basic environmental services such as trash disposal..
left thousands of mostly Black residents without clean water last year. After Hurricane Ida hit in 2021, some Black and working-class neighborhoods in New Orleans went a month without sanitation services, leaving enormous trash piles to fill the hot, humid air with a putrid stench. As climate change brings more frequent flooding and severe weather, otherFor the people behind the civil rights movement, environmental issues were never someone else’s problem. Today, Black people in the U.S.
as part of a plan to decarbonize an entire urban community, a reminder that environmental issues do not stop at the edge of the woods. The climate crisis is global, but the necessary transformation away from fossil fuels is happening in local communities, where activists and residents
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