News & Analysis
June 9, 2020
The Center for Climate Integrity joins Americans and environmental organizations across the country in supporting the Movement for Black Lives and endorsing demands to confront the police violence, racism, and inequality plaguing our country.
George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and too many others are victims of systemic racism and white supremacy that has gone unchecked and is deeply embedded in all aspects of our society — including climate change. The climate crisis hits communities of color the hardest, and accountability and justice for these communities starts with acknowledging and addressing that uncomfortable truth.
In last week’s edition of our newsletter, EXXONKNEWS, we talked to environmental justice advocate and storyteller Bartees Cox on the crucial intersection of racial justice and climate accountability — and what it means in the midst of this unprecedented moment.
“When I look at the protests, and energy equity and the climate movement and all of these other things, and how they’re connected — the connection is in this problem that people can’t succeed in this country the way it is,” said Cox. “A huge chunk of the country — the majority of the country — is being choked out from a system that won’t let them breathe.”
Read the rest of our interview here.
Image: Community members rally in St. James Parish to demand an evacuation route for residents in the area from the continuing construction of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. Credit: Greenpeace
