We should care about the protection of people as much as we care about the protection of our planet-to me, these fights are the same. As a society, w… - Leah Thomas

I was so frustrated during this second wave of the Black Lives Matter movement [in the Spring of 2020] because the environmental community was largely silent. So I posted the Environmentalists for Black Lives Matter graphic, along with my definition of intersectional environmentalism, and also an intersectional environmentalist pledge and I put it out there.

What is the impact of having large-scale environmental movements that mostly exclude the voices of the underrepresented and people of color?

I think when a lot of people learn about environmental racism, they think, “How can I save these people?” But they don’t think about “What have I been ignoring to allow this to happen?”