“We live on the front lines of both the causes and the effects of climate change,” says environmental justice attorney Monique Harden. “We live next to the BP offshore oil drilling, as well as the oil refineries and the petrochemical facilities that are outside many of our homes in our communities in Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. We also are the ones to receive the first, and the worst, effects of climate change: from storm surge; flooding; intensive, disastrous hurricanes; subsidence even." “One of the things that we’re doing at Advocates for Environmental Human Rights is pooling our resources with groups across the Gulf region to bring together a people’s movement assembly in Mobile, Alabama," she says. #climatechange
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 17:56:34 +0000
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