Sound climate policies are urgently needed to help save lives and promote social justice. Policies that reduce harmful emissions and help poor and disadvantaged communities adapt to climate change are not only smart, but essential to building a world with liberty, equality, and justice for all.
In fact, the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (EJCC) recently released a report analyzing the ways in which African Americans will be disproportionately affected by global warming. The report finds that:
-global warming amplifies nearly all existing inequalities
-sound global warming policy is also economic and racial justice policy
-climate policies that best serve African Americans also best serve a just and strong United States
-climate policies that best serve African Americans and other disproportionately affected communities also best serve global economic and environmental justice
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