Samia Dumbuya is a climate justice activist that believes environmental justice does not exist without social justice. She is the co-founder of Seize the Vote, a platform for young people to equip themselves with the tools, knowledge and resources to transform political spaces in the UK. @seizethevote
The formal definition of environmental racism is “environmental injustice that occurs within a racialised context both in practice and policy”. It was coined in 1982 by Dr. Benjamin Chavin, an African American civil rights activist who worked with researchers to collate evidence of environmental racism in the US. These findings...