This presentation is geared towards high school students and explores topics such as environmental racism, redlining and its impacts on communities located near pollution sources, inequitable responses to climate disasters, and the high energy costs faced by people of color—also known as energy burden. This presentation also explores how environmental justice and efforts to reduce carbon emissions are connected by showing how environmental hazards, systemic racism, and decarbonization affect marginalized communities, especially people of color. Finally, the presentation discusses some emerging solutions to these problems, including policy changes and equitable decarbonization initiatives.
Presentation and materials created by J.R. Jacobs.