Climate Change, Environmental Racism, and the Erosion of Community

Climate change and environmental injustices are threatening communities across the United States. From the struggling shrimping industry in Louisiana to the underpaid and overworked wildland firefighters in the West, the impacts are widespread. In Africatown, Alabama, residents face the legacy of slavery and the ongoing reality of environmental racism, while on Sapelo Island, Georgia, slave descendant families struggle to hold onto their ancestral land.

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