Social and environmental injustice are inseparable forces that concentrate pollution, limit access to green space and healthy food, and systematically exclude marginalized communities from decision-making about their own neighborhoods. When industrial sites cluster in low-income areas while parks and grocery stores disappear, when rising temperatures hit hardest in concrete-heavy neighborhoods with few trees, when community voices go unheard in development plans, we’re witnessing both injustices at once.
The connection runs deeper than proximity. Environmental degradation doesn’t affect everyone equally. Communities of …
