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Plastic Isn’t Only Making Our Oceans Sick: It s Causing People of Color to Suffer, Too
Jun 08, 2021
Today, World Oceans Day, is a reminder of how the high seas give us life and livelihoods, as this year’s United Nations commemoration emphasizes for 2021.
The reminders of the value oceans bring to humanity often come with brilliant photos that showcase sea life, recreation such as kayaking, and local people fishing across the continents all of which succeed in demonstrating how the oceans are central to how billions of us live, work and play.
Often not shown in such visuals are the effects that the mismanagement of the oceans has on people worldwide. That’s especially true when it comes to showing the risks faced by people of color and low-income people, who are more likely to live near a facility that makes or incinerates one of the oceans’ greatest nemeses: plastic.
Choked from both the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Society of Environmental Journalists.
She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in history.
About Yvette Arellano
Yvette Arellano is a gulf coast organizer from Houston, Texas, dedicated to the causes of environmental and racial justice. Currently, Yvette is leading efforts in Houston, home of the largest petrochemical complex in the nation, to help the city s most vulnerable communities on the petrochemical expansion fueled by plastic production.
Yvette is also the founder of Fenceline Watch, an environmental justice advocacy group based in Houston that is dedicated to the eradication of toxic multigenerational harm on communities living along the fenceline of industry. In 2015, they led the campaign against H.R. 702, which opened the floodgates to U.S. crude oil exports.