ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE
- Article: “Black Environmentalists Talk About Climate and Anti-Racism”, Somini Sengupta, published in Climate: Fwd newsletter of The New York Times, June 3, 2020. “It’s impossible to live sustainably without tackling inequality, activists say.” (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/climate/black-environmentalists-talk-about-climate-and-anti-racism.html)
- Article: “The Environmental Justice Wake-Up Call”, Lisa Friedman and Julia Rosen, published in Climate: Fwd newsletter of The New York Times, June 17, 2020. “It’s impossible to live sustainably without tackling inequality, activists say.” (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/climate/climate-environmental-justice.html)
- Article: “Racism Is Killing the Planet”, Hop Hopkins, published in Sierra, June 8, 2020. “The ideology of white supremacy leads the way toward disposable people and a disposable natural world.” (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/climate/climate-environmental-justice.html)
- Book: Mona Hanna-Attisha, What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance and Hope in an American City (One World Paperback, 2018). An authoritative and compelling account of the Flint water crisis.
- Book: Christopher W. Wells, ed., Environmental Justice in Postwar America (University of Washington Press, 2018). A documentary reader on the past seventy-five years.
- Book: Dorceta Taylor, The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection (Duke, 2016). A powerful multi-racial perspective on the American environmental movement by the co-chair of University of Michigan’s Environmental Justice program.
Please see the Earthcare Committee webpage for more information about the Meeting’s efforts for environment and climate justice.