Why 'I can't breathe' is resonating with environmental justice activists.
that"three out of every five Black and Hispanic Americans lived in communities with uncontrolled toxic waste sites." The authors wrote that their research exposed"a serious void in present government programs addressing racial and ethnic concerns in this area."
Fred Krupp, who at the time was the executive director of the Environmental Defense Fund, said the moment was a wake-up call. Patterson said many climate change organizations and environmental leaders are still slow to fully embrace intersectionality as part of their mission. Part of the struggle likely owes to how the modern environmental movement evolved, she said.
Similar dynamics drove conservation efforts in the U.S. in the early 20th century and influenced the thinking and research of early giants in the movement, including President Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot, the man he named chief forester of the redefined U.S. Forest Service. "I understand the instinct to want to focus just on climate change, because that's already so complicated," she said."But that's naive, because it implies that these issues are not inextricably interwoven."
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