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Nashville’s 2010 floodPhoto: Eric England
The flash flooding around Nashville late last month didn’t leave as strong an impression as the historic widespread flooding of May 2010. There were fewer indelible images of submerged landmarks, fewer national news hits.
But in some areas of the city, the deluge in 2021 was even worse than 2010, and some people are still trying to dig out.
At Lesby and Roberto’s home along Nolensville Road, the rainwater flowed “like a river,” Roberto remembers. The couple’s home which they rent and share with Lesby’s sister, brother-in-law and three kids between the two couples sits in a low-lying area between the busy South Nashville thoroughfare and a small tributary of Sevenmile Creek. Water from the nearby stream gushed into their home; weeks later, mud still cakes the floor, kitchen tiles buckled from the rising water. Roberto points out shopping carts and other debris left beneath a bridge by the storm, worried th
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Patrick KingPhoto: Steven Romero of Music City Creative
When you think about climate activists, who comes to mind? Greta Thunberg? Al Gore? A recent study by Yale University’s Climate Change Communication program found that Latino and Black Americans are more likely to be alarmed or concerned about climate change than whites.
“The environmental sector suffers from an alarming amount of whiteness,” says Patrick King, the sustainability education manager of local nonprofit Urban Green Lab. “There’s a perception that it’s a space only for affluent white folks, when in reality, when you look at the numbers, the overwhelming majority of people who believe in climate change and believe that things have to be done around climate change are Black and brown.”