I feel as you do on some of these issues, but I am in the American context so what is going on is going to be different. By keeping the races at each others' throats in the working class, corporations manage to stop unionization efforts.
Environmentalism has largely been racist and classist though there are some changes afoot. The various environmental programs in universities are filled with white students. The discussions about preserving habitat or preserving outdoor spaces for recreation are typically fights that white people are heavily invested in.
More recently, environmental and climate justice has entered the conversation, and this is about not polluting environmental resources used by the lower classes and not putting polluting things into neighborhoods of people who have less political power. For example, there is a pipeline known as the Byhalia pipeline that is supposed to be constructed through Black parts of Mississippi and Tennessee, and there is local opposition to it that seems to be working.
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Date: 2021-05-03 11:57 pm (UTC)Environmentalism has largely been racist and classist though there are some changes afoot. The various environmental programs in universities are filled with white students. The discussions about preserving habitat or preserving outdoor spaces for recreation are typically fights that white people are heavily invested in.
More recently, environmental and climate justice has entered the conversation, and this is about not polluting environmental resources used by the lower classes and not putting polluting things into neighborhoods of people who have less political power. For example, there is a pipeline known as the Byhalia pipeline that is supposed to be constructed through Black parts of Mississippi and Tennessee, and there is local opposition to it that seems to be working.