ニッキー・リードのインスタグラム(nikkireed) - 6月22日 02時56分

(Continuation of yesterday’s post) Good morning everyone! If you have a moment please pause what you are doing and read this powerful Sunday post by @mayasideas 🌎❤️
“For as long as I could remember I’ve had a passion for nature, ecosystems, and the planet. I leapt into environmental advocacy at 8 years old, to use my voice and abilities to make a difference in the world. But being a young black environmental activist, I couldn’t help but notice that virtually no one in the sustainability space looked like me. I grew up with very few reflections of myself within this field. I had no points of reference and experienced firsthand how my identity dictated what room there was for me in this space, but I never gave up. I continued to advocate, educate, and research as much as I could, digging more into some of the unsung history of the black leaders in this space such as Wangari Maathai, Hazel M. Johnson, and more. That’s what brought me to the history of the environmental justice movement.⠀
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Due to systemic racism, communities of color are at a much higher risk of experiencing pollution of the air, water, and soil, exposure to toxic chemicals, climate related deaths and illnesses, and so much more. In the wake of this injustice, black, brown, and indigenous researchers, scientists, educators, and nature conservationists continued to sound the alarm. So many powerful warriors in this fight for the planet, who’s names and work have all too often been overlooked or lost to history. One of the early and most significant examples of environmental justice advocacy was in Warren County North Carolina in 1982. The Ward Transformer Company dumped 31,000 gallons of toxic transformer oil containing hazardous chemicals known as PCBs along 240 miles of North Carolina highway.

In a blatantly racist act the state determined that they were going to dump the soil tainted with chemicals that had the ability to cause cancer, birth defects, and more in the predominantly black community of Warren County. Upon hearing this news, the residents of Warren County mobilized. An estimated 800 people protested against the dump site...” (continued in comments!)

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