The West is burning. The South and East are flooding. There’s a drought in the Midwest. The rapid onslaught of climate change is here, and with it, a paradigm shift; from the global pandemic to the massive migration of people seeking refuge from destruction, violence, natural disasters, and wars, the entangled roots of our white supremacist capitalist patriarchal society are being exposed.

Environmental injustice, including climate change, impacts communities of color the most. In fact, race is the number one factor for the placement of toxic facilities in the U.S. Inaction at the federal level to fix poor infrastructure and exposures to chemicals like Uranium, toxic waterways, oil pipelines that threaten whole communities and sacred land, contributing to drought and fires across the nation. Indigenous tribes across the U.S. experience some of the harshest effects of these climate disasters.

Yet out of the thorns of entangled roots, our grantees lead the way working at the intersections of reproductive justice. The right to raise our children in safe and sustainable communities is a core belief within the Reproductive Justice movement, and that looks like Climate and Environmental Justice. We bring you three grantee stories from Indigenous- and Black-led organizations facing the realities of climate and pollution today.

Read the full article about environmental justice at Groundswell Fund.