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Before the streetlights come on : Black America's urgent call for climate solutions /
"Climate change. Two words that are quickly becoming the clarion call to action in the twenty-first century. It is a voter issue, an economy driver, and a defining dynamic for the foreseeable future. Yet, in Black communities, climate change is seen as less urgent when compared to other pressin...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
Broadleaf Books,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Hurry up and get home before the streetlights come on!
- The basics of climate change, in plain language
- The earth will pass out if she doesn't take off her waist trainer: understanding heat-trapping gases and global warming
- Living over the soil and under the cloud on contamination: natural gas, petrochemical pollution and climate change
- Redlining Black folks in a green world: federal discriminatory housing policy and environmental injustice
- Grandma's house is not for sale for the sake of the planet: climate solutions disguised as green gentrification and blue lining
- The cultural appropriation of collard greens: food insecurity and the climate crisis
- Too hot to learn, too cold to care: the educational impacts of climate change
- Climate crisis is an accomplice to the murder of George Floyd: links between climate change, extreme weather and violence
- Voting for our climate lives: climate voting trends and voter suppression
- The answered prayers of our ancestors: faith and climate action
- A soul-powered future: the future of climate opportunities through clean energy, climate change and the next generation of solutions
- Streetlight Action Plan (S.L.A.P.).