The Racism, White Supremacy, & the Climate Movement Working Group of CAN invites everyone to deepen your understanding of the interrelationships between racism and climate change, and to be active in building a powerful climate justice movement. In order to stop climate change, we must address racism. Please use these pages to understand more about why this is true and how we can do this. Please join us as we learn together and become increasingly effective. To join the Working Group please email Russ Vernon-Jones at russvj@gmail.com.
Read the CAN statement on:
White Supremacy and Climate Action
A key condition for creating the world we yearn for is to understand and unravel systemic white supremacy while making every effort to repair the harm that has been done. Only then can we build a movement grounded in solidarity, collaboration, love and trust that is our best hope for a just and livable world. Only with such systemic change will it be possible to truly address the climate emergency in an equitable way, transform the economy so it prioritizes the common good and works equitably for everyone, reverse the advance of authoritarianism, strengthen democracy, and dismantle white supremacy.
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Additional resources and perspectives:
Watch:
A video made by Climate Action Now that addresses how central racial justice is to the climate justice movement
Read:
“What’s Race Got to Do with It?”
a blog post that offers a quick overview – at Russ Vernon-Jones’s Climate Justice blog –
“Love, Justice, and Climate Change … I know you can make a difference”
Climate change is going to be the biggest cause of impoverishment, suffering and death for people of color all over the world for the remainder of this century. At the same time, racism keeps being used in the United States to elect politicians who refuse to take action to stop climate change. Racism also divides the climate movement and interferes with building a multi-racial movement powerful enough and inclusive enough to win the changes we need.
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