Intersectional Environmentalism: Why Environmental Justice Is Essential For A Sustainable Future!
We have to safeguard vulnerable communities plus the atmosphere.
The summer time after my newcomer year of school, I returned the place to find St. Louis, Missouri, where I spent time contemplating what major I needed to pursue. After thinking about (and deciding against) biology, I gravitated for the ecological science and policy program inside my college. Because the break ended, I declared my new major and hang my sights on Los Angeles for that new semester.
Days before I left, an unarmed black teen, Michael Brown, was shot and wiped out about ten minutes from the house and also the riots of Ferguson flooded this news. I started to look at my black identity in new ways and tried to process the data and trauma as protests erupted nearby and fires burned structures down.
After I tr...