In the U.S. Racism Is Literally In the Air: Black People’s Evolving Relationship With Climate Change & the Movement to End It

A comprehensive new study highlights the growing disparity between the Black and Brown Americans dying from air pollution, and the white Americans financially benefiting from this.

Activists Joshua Omonuk, Evelyn Acham, Luisa Neubauer and Edwin Namakanga protest the Total corporation in Africa in front of Deutsche Bank. (Photo by Boris Roessler/picture alliance via Getty Images)

“Maybe Black people should care about issues that affect us all, like climate change, instead of focusing on something as rare as police killing people,” …