This green stadium is being constructed in the affluent, predominantly-white Queen Anne neighborhood in Seattle WA. Meanwhile, in largely non-white neighborhoods in San Bernardino CA, Amazon's pollution-intensive shipping & warehouse operations are expanding. cc @SBACommunities
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This dichotomy showcases long-standing environmental racism of investments in pretty green futures for white people while Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and other people of color are ignored and put at higher risk for asthma, COVID-19, and death. cc
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The time for pledges and PR signaling is over. Planet Earth needs to see the numbers go down. We need pollution reduction in communities that are suffering. And we need it now. The rest is greenwashing.
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