"..That racism has been embedded within the climate movement itself, too. The whole idea of nature as being something separate from humanity, something that should be preserved as “wilderness”, denies the existence and expertise of the people who have been living in balance with their environment for thousands of years. The mainline environmental movement is almost exclusively white, and has often been at odds with the priorities of grassroots groups for decades.
.. The Sierra Club’s Hop Hopkins described it succinctly: “You can’t have climate change without sacrifice zones, and you can’t have sacrifice zones without disposable people, and you can’t have disposable people without racism.”
https://thecorrespondent.com/539/why-climate-change-is-a-civil-rights-battle/71356398421-19aef637