There's definitely a racial reckoning that needs to happen in the environmental space.

I think tackling climate justice is tackling the very roots of this country just like criminal justice is.

You're tackling climate justice,

you're tackling colonization, white supremacy, you're talking racism and you're

tackling patriarchy. Why am I 15 years old, 16 years old, spending 30, 40, 50 hours a week

organizing events and campaigns and lawsuits just so people can have clean air and clean water.

But at the end of the day, either I work with you, I work around you.

And some y'all are in our way. You're going to have to get out.

This is the secret lives of black women.

I'm Sharla.

And I'm Lauren. and today we're talking about

black climate activism. I am so jezed about this conversation because I feel like

so often in media portrayals of climate

justice and climate change, black and brown voices are left out when if we're

let's keep a real, black, indigenous, brown people of color have been leaders of

this movement since jump because we've had to for our survival.

You know?

Absolutely. Absolutely.

Because our neighborhoods, our air, our water, is usually the target of corporate environmental

attack.

Yeah, I feel like, you know, I truly feel like climate change is just another one of many things that is just a function of white supremacy and it's like with everything else we've got to fight for ourselves and we've been

fighting for ourselves you know I feel like I'm just so sick of it always just being

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