I wrote about this when I was in college. I've recently written about it in the context of voting rights. And you write about it so eloquently about how Environmental racism takes away from your ability to confront environmental problems. And to your point, when you expand that to the diaspora, it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy that we are going to continue to face these harms because we refuse to confront the realities of racism, especially in our climate decision. (45:10–45:22)
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