How Climate Change is Driving Emigration from Central America

By Miranda Cady Hallett, The Conversation

In the absence of coordinated action on the part of the global community to mitigate ecological instability and recognize the plight of displaced people, there’s a risk of what some have called “climate apartheid.” In this scenario – climate change combined with closed borders and few migration pathways – millions of people would be forced to choose between increasingly insecure livelihoods and the perils of unauthorized migration.

Sharon Adetoro: How to Make the Movement More Inclusive? Do the Work!

By Manchester Climate Monthly Staff, Manchester Climate Monthly

The Environmental movement is heavily white and middle class. Both of which we are not. There is an uncomfortableness about entering that space.

NAACP Reveals Tactics Fossil Fuel Industry Uses to Manipulate Communities of Color

By Ben Jervey, DeSmog Blog

The fossil fuel industry regularly deploys manipulative and dishonest tactics when engaging with communities of color, often working to co-opt the respect and authority of minority-led groups to serve corporate goals.

Nearly all Tornadoes are Survivable, so Why are People still Dying?

By Eric Holthaus, Grist

This isn’t just a weather disaster; it’s a failure of society. Lee County’s per capita income is $22,794, 19 percent live below the poverty line, and 17 percent of houses are mobile homes, nearly three times the national average. Unsafe shelter makes residents much more vulnerable to tornadoes.

4 Black Women Leaders on Climate, Justice, and the Green ‘Promised Land’

By Justine Calma, Grist

Black leaders have long been pioneers in protecting communities and the environment — from Harriet Tubman, who in the mid-1800s used her knowledge of the natural world to guide escaped slaves north, to landfill protesters in Warren County, North Carolina in 1982 who galvanized the modern environmental justice movement.

Poor Southerners are Joining the Globe’s Climate Migrants

By Lewis Raven Wallace, Environmental Health News

Many residents of government-subsidized housing have already become climate migrants, in New Orleans, Miami, Houston, and Puerto Rico.

The Response podcast episode 3: The impact of Northern California fires on the undocumented community

By Robert Raymond, Tom Llewellyn, Shareable

We'll investigate how, in the face of ICE raids, labor violations, a housing crisis, and climate-fueled wildfires, the broader community is coming together to stand in solidarity with those who are being forced into the shadows.

A More Inclusive Global Climate Action Summit can Stop us From ‘Losing Earth’

By Danielle Dean-Ryan, Grist

What Rich left out is that the mainstream environmental movement – the ecosystem of big green organizations and funders – consistently excluded and failed to provide resources to organizations representing those most vulnerable to climate change: communities of color and low-income communities.

How Natural Disasters Widen the Wealth Gap Between Minority and White Communities

By Kyla Mandel, Think Progress

Wealth inequality dramatically increases between white communities and communities of color in the U.S. following a natural disaster, a new study found.

Still No Evacuation Plan for Vulnerable Residents at End of Louisiana’s Bayou Bridge Pipeline

By Julie Dermansky, DeSmog Blog

Sharon Lavigne and Geraldine Mayho took me to meet some of the most vulnerable members of their community, handicapped residents of St. James, Louisiana, who live near a terminal where the Bayou Bridge pipeline will end. “These people have no way of getting out if there is a spill or explosion,” Lavigne told me.