White Supremacy is Not Sustainable.

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There are too many people out there who think if you use less plastic, bring your reusable bags to the grocery store, and drive a tesla you'll be saving the planet. But the number one killer of the planet is colonialism and white supremacy. You can't advocate for sustainability and protecting the environment if you're not making decisions that are informed by anti-colonialism and anti-racism.

Gentrification is bad for the environment. Buying white sage from Urban Outfitters is bad for the environment. Not respecting the land you visit and failing to learn about the original stewards of that land is bad for the environment.

Minding your own business and not calling the police on Black people is good for the environment. Advocating for reparations for Black people is good for the environment. Giving the land back to Indigenous communities is good for the environment. Abolishing the police and prisons is good for the environment. Leaving artifacts, pieces of pottery, flint, arrowheads, rocks, etc where you found them and not selling them on Etsy is good for the environment. Admiring ancient puebloan dwellings from afar and not trampling inside the delicate, sacred spaces is good for the environment.

It's not enough to patch up your old jacket with duct tape and recycle your IPA beer bottles. We need to work towards dismantling white supremacy and ongoing colonization.

Resources:

All Our Relations by Winona LaDuke

White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

An Indigenous Peoples' History by Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz

Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis

Anything by Vandana Shiva

Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks

Dispossessing the Wilderness by Mark David Spence

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Black Faces, White Spaces by Carolyn Finney