Climate Change Is Racist
Subtitle: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice
Publisher: Faber & Faber, Limited; Icon Books
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781785787751
Subjects: Environmental sciences
Description: "When we talk about racism, we often mean personal prejudice or institutional bias. Climate change isn't racist in that way. It is structurally racist, disproportionately caused by majority White people in majority White counties, with the damage unleashed overwhelmingly on people of colour. In this eye-opening book, writer and environmental activist Jeremy Williams takes us on a short, urgent journey across the globe--from Kenya to India, the USA to Australia--to understand how White privilege and climate change overlap. We'll look at the environmental facts, hear the experiences of the people most affected on our planet and learn from the activists leading the charge."--Back cover.