Today, we commemorate the end of slavery & celebrate Black freedom. Yet, the fight for equality and justice continues in the face of systemic racism, police brutality, ecological devastation and the climate crisis. There can be no climate justice without racial justice. 1/2
— Al Gore (@algore) June 19, 2020
Please use this weekend to stand up for what is needed in our country right now: moral revival & transformative change. Follow @unitethepoor & @Mvmnt4BlkLives. 2/2
— Al Gore (@algore) June 19, 2020
Gore decries ‘the nexus between the climate crisis and racism’
Gore: “These issues are inextricably braided together…The one stupid trick that white supremacists have used for 150 years is to accentuate racial division in order to build support among lower-income, majority-white voters for a corporate agenda that actually hurts them. It does this by increasing the amount of pollution in their communities…”
“The training is about a good deal more than simply learning the facts and figures and narratives that make up the slideshow. It will have a deep and sustained emphasis on the nexus between racism and diversity and the climate challenge…”
“I’m optimistic that joining together the climate movement and the racial equality movement will give us strength in numbers that will ultimately lead to success.”
