Climate and Colour 3: Sam Lindo on racism, air pollution, and more
Channel: Christian Climate Action
Date: 2020-12-13

In the third of our Advent series on Climate and Colour, co-hosted with our friends at Green Christian, Samantha Lindo speaks to Christian Climate Action's Saturday Sessions about the racialised effects of air pollution in Bristol.

Samantha is a Bristol based singer-songwriter, teacher and activist of mixed Jamaican heritage. She is a member of Christian Climate Action and a contributor to the book Time to Act: A Resource Book by the Christians in Extinction Rebellion (2020).

To reflect on her talk, Sam encourages you to consider the following questions: 
What is structural racism?
What is a racist policy?
What racist policies do you think are at play that produce structural environmental racism, in Bristol and around the UK?
What racist policies are at play that caused structural environmental racism in Ethiopia and more generally the global south?
How can acknowledging this affect the language we use to to describe the climate crisis?
How can this shape our demands and actions?
How can this affect our ministry, teaching and outreach?

The work from Ibram X Kendi that Sam quotes can be found here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2020/june/ibram-x-kendi-definition-of-antiracist.html 

You can read the study that Sam mentions, which modelled the climatic impacts of pollution from the global north in the global south, here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236118472_Tropical_Rainfall_Trends_and_the_Indirect_Aerosol_Effect