Claim: George Floyd Protests Are Linked to Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Who didn’t see this coming?
Faith Communities Connect Floyd Protests, Climate Change
June 2, 2020
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — An interfaith group working to slow climate change says there is a link between ending reliance on fossil fuels and the protests taking place across the country.
The COVID-19 pandemic and protests over the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man in Minneapolis, have eclipsed many other major news stories. But according to the Rev. Alison Cornish, executive director at Pennsylvania Interfaith Power and Light, the long history of systemic racism sparking nationwide protests is part of the climate crisis, too.
“We know that people with fewer resources and less power and who are more oppressed are going to be people deeply affected by climate,” Cornish said.
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via Watts Up With That?
June 2, 2020 at 12:45PM
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