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on February 18, 2021 “If environmental justice is a field, then we lose,” Ayana Elizabeth Johnson told attendees of the ninth annual Stephen H. Schneider Memorial Lecture on Thursday. “We have to include justice in our work, no matter where we work, or what we call it.”
Johnson co-created the Blue New Deal, which aims to emphasize the ocean in climate change policy. At the talk, she stressed that environmental justice, a field which studies how environmental burdens impact marginalized communities, can’t be separated from the more general climate movement.
“If we leave people of color out of the climate movement we will simply fail,” she said. “There just aren’t enough smart people with good ideas doing the work.”
What California needs to do to avoid a Texas-style electricity crisis
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A cyclist rides through the pier plaza in Huntington Beach during last August’s California heat wave, which caused rolling power blackouts resulting from high demand.Paul Bersebach / Associated Press 2020Show MoreShow Less
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The Bonneville Power Administration transmission line in central Oregon, which connects the Northwest electric power grid to California.Bonneville Power AdministrationShow MoreShow Less
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Extreme winter weather left Houston power lines inoperable last week, driving home the vulnerability of the energy infrastructure that California also faces.David J. Phillip / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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Vector-borne diseases shaped human history and reveal race disparities
In December 2015, a yellow fever outbreak began in Luanda, Angola. This outbreak was the largest reported in Angola during the last 30-years. In a new study, researchers examine the ways in which vector-borne diseases, like yellow fever, have shaped society and culture.
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Vector-borne diseases shaped human history and reveal race disparities
February 02, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Vector-borne diseases (VBDs), such as plague, malaria and yellow fever, have significantly shaped society and culture, according to an international team of researchers. In a study published in Ecology Letters on Jan. 27, the team used historical evidence interpreted through an ecological lens to illustrate how VBDs have influenced human history, with particular attention to how VBDs have reinforced and exacerbated racism.
Reparations before COVID-19 pandemic could have reduced infections, deaths in the U.S.
Civil rights activists have long called for monetary reparations to the Black descendants of Africans enslaved in the United States as a financial, moral, and ethical form of restitution for the injustices of slavery.
Now, a study led by Harvard Medical School researchers suggests reparations could also have surprising public health benefits for Black individuals and the entire nation.
To estimate the impact of structural inequities between Black and white individuals, the researchers set out to capture the effect of reparation payments on the Black-white wealth gap in the state of Louisiana.