Can we solve the climate crisis without confronting global inequities?
A recent study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA found that white residents in the USA produce more climate pollution than black or hispanic residents, but black and hispanic people are exposed to more air pollution.
And that is just the USA! Think about the global inequities in the "haves" and the "have nots".
And how are we going to lift people out of poverty without making the climate crisis even worse?
If you are a resident in a wealthy country, is it your responsibility to address both problems at once? And what would that look like in terms of national and international policy?
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Environmental Justice
All people do deserve to breathe the same air, see the same sky, and not have to hope that their area is ridded with plastic all around them or that the wildlife in the area has died off. The land around something producing pollution is cheaper. This leads families that are not as fortunate, to move into these locations and deal with whatever the problem already present is.
I agree. I think this disparity of areas with pollution and without should just not exist and we should work towards not having conditions like that be on our planet.