Word In Black; Published By: Kayla Benjamin
The National Urban League’s 2023 report on the State of Black America focuses on connecting the dots between threats to U.S. democracy and threats to Black American lives and livelihoods. That includes climate change, which this year received attention in a special section that featured four additional essays.
“You can draw a straight line from hate, extremism, conspiracy theories, [and] deniers to the attacks on policies with respect to confronting global warming and climate change,” National Urban League President Marc Morial said. “If you deny climate change, then you deny the existence of environmental racism.”
Created in partnership with the American Council on Renewable Energy, the report’s climate section focused, in part, on the disproportionate harms Black Americans face from climate change and other environmental issues. Dr. Robert Bullard, a pioneering scholar often described as “the father of environmental justice,” penned an essay in the section titled “The Quest for Environmental, Climate and Energy Justice in the United States.” Read more
