Who gets to tell the story of climate change?

About three years ago I began to think seriously about climate change and race. It was a subject I wanted to know more about, and so I went looking for a book about it. I couldn’t find any, and I ended up researching and writing the book I wanted to read – and which I hope to be able to publish in 2021*. But it raises an interesting question – not just why there aren’t any books on climate and race, but why so much of the climate story is being told by White people.

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