Bloomberg: Opinion | Fighting Climate Change Means Fighting Racial Injustice

Bloomberg, June 13, 2020: Opinion | Fighting Climate Change Means Fighting Racial Injustice

“You can’t let one segment of society become a sacrifice.”

Michael Méndez, an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine, was on the phone talking about the protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd beneath a White police officer’s knee. But he was also talking about environmental justice and climate change. And he could just as easily have been talking about COVID-19, which has taken more than 100,000 American lives and, in the process, exposed gaping inequalities of wealth, access to healthcare and job safety.