Credit: Tom Parkhill
Parliamentary Inquiry - comment by Chi Onwurah MP
Climate change and the geosciences risk being seen as largely white sciences in the Global North, according to a new study. The research shows that racial minority students are significantly underrepresented in Geology and other sciences of relevance to climate change.
Presenting the work at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference , author Professor Chris Jackson says that the lack of minority students and opinion leaders in these vital sciences reflects systemic exclusion , and risks alienating large sections of the global population from our efforts to combat climate change and protect the environment.