If the primarily wealthy, white activists gathering in New York really want to fight the climate crisis, they should hear what we have to say.
Young people of color have a lot to worry about these days. Police violence has us feeling unsafe in our own communities. The lack of adequate job and educational opportunities has us stressed about the future. Racial discrimination has us feeling anxious and unwelcome in public spaces.
In addition, oil and gas infrastructure, like drilling sites, pipelines and refineries—which have proven negative impacts on health and drive climate change—are typically located in low-income communities and communities of color. From Katrina to Detroit to Standing Rock to Puerto Rico, we have seen that when we resist, we are met with violence, oppression and displacement. And this burden of polluting infrastructure falls on communities of color not only in the U.S.
The environmental justice movement emphasizes bottom-up organizing, focusing on the voices of those most impacted, and shared community leadership. It is led by an intergenerational army who recognize these threats as existential. Together, at the Climate Justice Youth Summit, we will work to operationalize our Just Transition principles, recognizing that we must build a visionary economy that is very different than the one we now are in. This requires stopping the bad while at the same time building the new. We must change the rules to redistribute resources and power to local communities.
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