- Climate change is a serious health threat for everyone but especially for communities that are already vulnerable.
- Geographic proximity to polluting facilities, for example, is a way in which disadvantaged communities of color are made vulnerable to climate change.
- Past policies can have a domino public health effect from generation to generation.
Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic and the overlapping cultural reckoning over racial injustice have shed light on the stark socioeconomic and public health disparities experienced by people of color domestically and worldwide.
Today, those same needed conversations are happening around how we approach another global crisis and its associated public health ramifications — climate change.
While research and the work of activists have long highlighted just how grave the impacts of our planet’s worsening climate crisis are on communities of color worldwide, experts say it’s a problem that isn’t being discussed enough.
Source: healthline