Recently, U.S. Sens. Tammy Duckworth, Cory Booker, and Tom Carper wrote an op-ed explaining why they formed the Senate’s first Environmental Justice Caucus. They described how people of color have struggled for generations against air and water pollution that disproportionately affects their communities. They described how those activists have achieved success, encountered failure, and persevered in pushing back against the power structures in our country that espouse a belief in equality, but act in ways that target their bodies, their homes, and their families.
Many times, we separate the struggle over climate change from the struggle for racial justice, but there are so many connections.