Back in early July, Time Magazine posted an article by AYANA ELIZABETH JOHNSON called “We Can’t Solve the Climate Crisis Unless Black Lives Matter”. Among other things, she says: The Black Lives Matter movement is not a distraction from saving the planet. We can’t solve the climate…

This week’s quote is from and reference is to an article in the Fordham Environmental Law Review, BLACK LIVES MATTER, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND COVID-19 by Sarah Walsh, J.D. Candidate 2022, Fordham University School of Law. The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting African Americans at a disproportionate…

Some countries and a few spots in the United States have responded quickly and well to the pandemic, showing that it’s possible to successfully overturn how we do things in a heartbeat. The Black Lives Matter movement has brought the brutal realities of systemic racial…