March 7, 2020The gist:
In her Earth Justice article, Emilie Karrick Surrusco helps to reveal an important distinction regarding womxn and environmental justice, ‘women helped to shift the focus of environmental advocates from exclusively protecting wild places and wildlife to ensuring that the places where people lived were safe and healthy.’ And that, “long before Rachel Carson raised the alarm about pesticides in the 1960s, there were women like Dr. Rebecca Cole, a Black physician who saw that environmental conditions in cities were worse for Black people because White landlords kept them living in unhealthy conditions.” Which led to her advocate for “cubic air space laws to prevent overcrowding in apartments.”
Our biological care-giving tendencies make us natural stewards of the environment. And because womxn, and minorities are the ones who are the most adversely affected, we are the natural advocates, too.
Read the entire Earth Justice article here, that highlights two more womxn eco-activists, advocating for all of our futures.
