Take climate change: think about Hurricane Katrina. Was overwhelmingly black people who were killed; those who did survive were displaced.
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Black Louisiana residents aren't the ones who emitted most carbon—not historically, and not in their lifetimes. But they felt its effects.
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Over and over again, people who emitted the least carbon, and contributed the least to climate change, are the ones who die from it.
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Whether its floods in India or mosquito-spread viruses thriving from global warming in Brazil, it's poor poc who pay with their lives.
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When we talk about the unequal effects of climate change (the global one for the sake of these tweets), we use the term climate justice.
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Climate justice already assumes that climate change is not being doled out equally or fairly. And it seeks to find solutions for that.
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But we need to remember the whole local environmental part of all of this, too. Because that's just as unequal and unfair.
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Fact: in the US, white people breathe better air. Poor white people still more likely to breathe better air than middle-class black people.
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Poor people and poc tend to live closer to the oil industry and its tentacles: oil pumps, oil refineries, oil storage tanks. You name it.
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33 years worked at a refinery in Wilmington for my pops. Real talk, surprised he's still alive at 71.
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I think about your papá all the time, Gabriel. All those stories you shared w me about Texas, oil, Cali, and refineries...
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We've got a gallows humor about it; between smelter and sulfur, a mutant 6'6" Mexican was born!
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