A story about structural injustice

Over the last couple of years I’ve spoken to many different audiences about my book, Climate Change is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice. Of the various difficult things that I tend to say in these presentations, the one that is most often misunderstood is the idea of structural racism.

Most of us in the UK are used to thinking of racism as prejudiced actions and opinions. That is only one layer of racism, and structural racism – or structural injustice of any kind...