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A changing climate: Anti-racism and Boston's environmental justice

"A Changing Climate: Anti-Racism and Boston's Environmental Justice" will address the topic of how systemic racism affects Boston's climate and environmental work to create disparate realities for Black communities in Boston. Black communities in Boston are disproportionately climate and environmental justice communities, as the projections of all of the greatest climate impacts will drastically impact this community. This is common not only in these impacts, but also within the realm of rampant income and wealth disparities, gentrification and displacement, and many other societal impacts. At the core, each of these come from the same source: systemic racism.

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As Boston has pledged to be a leader in combatting racism and racism has been listed as a public health crisis, this conversation serves as the beginning of an effort to combat the racism that exists in climate and environmental work. This is all to take powerful steps forward to completely rid Boston of the insidious residue of racism. Anti-racism is powerful in how we must accomplish these lofty goals, as it aims to change the structures that allow for racism, in all of its forms, to pervade our society. We must integrate this ideology and practice into all facets of our society to counteract the effects racism has had on the Black community's ability to be strong, thriving, and resilient to any danger. 

If you are interested in participating in this conversation, please complete our registration form. If you have any questions, feel free to email David Corbie at David.Corbie@Boston.Gov.