“All I know is that if climate change and environmental injustice are the result of a society that values some lives and not others, then none of us are safe from pollution until all of us are safe from pollution. Dirty air doesn’t stop at the county line, and carbon pollution doesn’t respect national borders. As long as we keep letting the polluters sacrifice Black and brown communities, we can’t protect our shared global climate.
I also know that as long as police can take Black lives, then none of us are truly safe. I keep coming back to the murder of George Floyd, the nine minutes a cop took to bring the drumbeat of George’s heart to a standstill. I keep asking again and again, how could they bring themselves to do it?
And now I ask you, what will you bring yourself to do?”
If you haven’t yet, be sure to read this beautiful piece from Leah Thomas for Vogue on “Why Every Environmentalist Should be Anti-Racist”.
Photo: Courtesy of Leah Thomas via Vogue
