Together, we can transform the future of environmentalism and, with collective action, spread our message across the globe and change enough hearts a… - Leah Thomas

If you look at the 1960s and 1970s, there was the civil rights movement, and then there was the environmental movement right after, which was largely white-led. They appropriated the same tactics that they learned from civil rights protestors. And then, of course, we have the first Earth Day, which is super amazing, but if you look at pictures, you see white people wearing headdresses. And now we’re at a different point in history where we have in 2019 and early 2020, the biggest climate marches, and then right after that, side by side, we have another civil rights movement happening at the same time.

The future can and will be intersectional.

Those least responsible for the climate crisis are bearing the brunt of it.