Where Black Communities Fit into America’s Energy Transition
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 1, 2024
Where Black Communities Fit into America’s Energy Transition
Black people bear an unfair share of harm from climate pollution. The United States — and the world — must do better.
February 28, 2024
Nydia Bryan Martinez
When you think of the worst effects of climate change — floods, hurricanes, unbearable heat — it’s easy to think that all that misery would have an equal impact.
But the damaging effects of a warming world are not evenly shared, and that imbalance underscores how climate and history are impossible to disentangle. From the developed world’s disproportionate historical emissions . . .
