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environmental justice advocate passionate about making environmental education more inclusive | 🎙host of The Joy Report by @isxenviro
Apr 22, 2022 10 tweets 4 min read
This #earthday I would love for everyone to learn at least one fact about the impacts of environmental racism so we can all understand how inextricably linked racial justice is with the protection & preservation of our planet Here are a few: 1.) race has remained one of the most significant indicators of a community’s proximity to hazardous waste and pollutants since this was first proven in 1987 in the Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States report (nrc.gov/docs/ML1310/ML…)