Structural Racism in the Climate Crisis
26.04.2021
Listen to an online discussion organized by Students for Future Hildesheim, where Ingrid Waldron (Dalhousie University) provided „a Framework for Understanding the Link Between Structural Inequities, Environmental Racism & Climate Inequities in Indigenous & Black Communities“.
Title: „Connecting the Dots: A Framework for Understanding the Link Between Structural Inequities, Environmental Racism & Climate Inequities in Indigenous & Black Communities“
Indigenous, Black, and other racialized and marginalized communities in the global north and south are disproportionately vulnerable to the climate crisis because they are more likely to be exposed to pollution and contamination from nearby industry and reside in places where they are also more likely to be impacted by rising sea levels, disappearing shorelines, frequent and heavy rainfall, raging storms and floods, intense heat waves, increasing wildfire, poor air quality, higher rates of climate-related diseases, and other effects of climate change that hit them first and worst.
These long-standing structural inequities include racist policies and practices, such as residential segregation, unequal educational opportunities, limited opportunities for economic advancement, low-income and poverty and fragile public infrastructures, such as poor-quality housing. These factors have increased the vulnerability of Black and Indigenous people to the climate crisis and other global crises. Therefore, the fights against climate change, environmental racism, and racial injustice are considerably intertwined and must be addressed together. Ingrid Waldron is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health at Dalhousie University, the Team Co-Lead of the Improving the Health of People of African Descent Flagship at the Healthy Populations Institute at Dalhousie, founder and Executive Director of the Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities & Community Health Project (The ENRICH Project), and the co-founder of the national Anti-Environmental Racism Coalition.
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