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In the book, Mendez draws from his own experiences as public policy as an advisor, senior legislative consultant, lobbyist and as a gubernatorial appointee during the passage of California’s climate change laws. “California is not just a national leader but a global leader looking at mitigation and adaptation policies around climate change,” Méndez said. “I look at how environmental justice groups in communities of color, who are suffering the worst from climate change with things like air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, are working to address some of the needs.” ....
AARON ORLOWSKI, HOST California’s environmental justice advocates have made it clear for years that clever schemes to reduce global carbon emissions can still permit harm to local communities, if polluters are allowed to keep on polluting. Now, with the Sunrise Movement and the Green New Deal, that message is going national. How has California been at the vanguard of environmental justice? And how can we protect the most vulnerable people when we’re trying to fight climate change? From the University of California, Irvine, I’m Aaron Orlowski. And you’re listening to the UCI Podcast. Today, I’m speaking with Michael Méndez, an assistant professor of urban planning and public policy at UCI. He’s also the author of the book “Climate Change from the Streets: How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement.” ....
This month s bookshelf highlights writings illustrating the inconvenient truth that communities of color suffer most, and most severely, when disaster strikes. The COVID-19 pandemic has confirmed again a fundamental truth about the Anthropocene: When disaster strikes, the vulnerable take the hardest punches. Communities of color have suffered much higher rates of infection, hospitalization, and mortality, both because they are disproportionately represented in frontline service positions and because their access to routine healthcare is more limited. This pattern has long been observed in studies of environmental and climate justice, as the titles in this month’s bookshelf show. Vulnerable communities of color face more and more serious exposure to environmental hazards and have more limited access to economic, social, and political remedies. ....