Before the streetlights come on : Black America's urgent call for climate solutions. / Heather McTeer Toney

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McTeer Toney, Heather.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Social Aspects--United States.

United States--Environmental conditions.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : 1517 Media, [2023].

Summary:

Climate change disproportionately affects every aspect of life for Black communities. In this book, climate activist Heather McTeer Toney demonstrates how and why, as we strive for systemic change, climate justice is a central issue and how Black Americans are leading the movement for climate solutions for their communities and the world.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Foreword

Chapter 1: Hurry Up and Get Home before the Streetlights Come On!

History behind the "Why" We Must Address Climate Change

Survival of the Worst Environmental Conditions Imaginable

Chapter 2: The Basics of Climate Change, in Plain Language

Climate Change and Black People

Make It Make Sense-Climate Change Basics

Before the Streetlights Come On

Chapter 3: The Earth Will Pass Out If She Doesn't Take Off Her Waist Trainer-Understanding Heat-Trapping Gases and Global Warming

Make It Make Sense-Global Warming

Chapter 4: Living over the Soil and under the Cloud of Contamination-Natural Gas, Petrochemical Pollution and Climate Change

America's Loading Dock for Gas

Make It Make Sense-Contamination and Pollution Terminology

Before the Streetlights Come on

Chapter 5: Redlining Black Folks in a Green World-Federal Discriminatory Housing Policy and Environmental Injustice

History of Redlining Black People

First Meeting in North Birmingham, Alabama

Exchanging the Rose-Colored Glasses for Aloe-Green Gloves

Wiretapped? Is It THAT serious?

Make It Make Sense-Redlining and Environmental Justice

Chapter 6: Grandma's House Is Not for Sale for the Sake of the Planet-Climate Solutions Disguised as Green Gentrification and Blue Lining

From Redlines to Blue Lines

Community Land Trust (CLT)

Make It Make Sense-Green Gentrification and Blue Lining

Chapter 7: The Cultural Appropriation of Collard Greens-Food Insecurity and the Climate Crisis

Climate Impacts to Food Production

The Environmental Poverty Tax of Food Deserts

Speaking the Language of Food Disparity and Climate.

Transforming Climate Messaging into Meals

Seaweed Might Save the Hamburgers

Make It Make Sense-Climate and Food Security

Chapter 8: Too Hot to Learn, Too Cold to Care-The Educational Impacts of Climate Change

School Zoning as an Environmental Barrier to Education

Extreme Heat and Education

Make It Make Sense-Education and Climate Terminology

Chapter 9: Climate Crisis Is an Accomplice to the Murder of George Floyd-Links between Climate Change, Extreme Weather and Violence

The Block is Hot

The Excused Intensity of Heat-Related Violence

Officer Clemmons and Mister Rogers

Make It Make Sense-Climate and Violence Terminology

Chapter 10: Voting for Our Climate Lives-Climate Voting Trends and Voter Suppression

The Scariest Horror Film EVER Debuted on January 6, 2021

Flashing Signs of Danger Ahead

Stop Tripping over Your Own Feet and Run!

Lessons from Lovecraft Country

Make It Make Sense-Climate and Voting Terminology

Chapter 11: The Answered Prayers of Our Ancestors-Faith and Climate Action

The Earth Is the Lord's and the Fulness Thereof

Bosom Notes

Make It Make Sense-Climate and Faith Terminology

Chapter 12: A Soul-Powered Future-The Future of Climate Opportunities through Clean Energy, Climate Change and the Next Generation of Solutions

Make It Make Sense-Energy Terminology

Acknowledgments

Streetlight Action Plan (S.L.A.P.)

Notes.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781506478630

OCLC:

1374427807