Emma River-Roberts is the Founder and Director of the Working Class Climate Alliance, an international advocacy non-profit focused on working-class rights and the greater inclusion of working-class voices in climate spaces. Emma is also a PhD Researcher at Goldsmiths University, examining how a working-class community in Sussex, England, is experiencing and responding to climate change. She lives in England. You can email her directly at: [email protected]
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Why climate movements struggle to talk about class
Environmental movements often frame injustice through race and gender while overlooking the ways class shapes power, exclusion, and whose voices are heard. The result is a climate politics that can alienate the very working-class communities needed to build effective movements.
May 29, 2026
