"In March 2019, NPR reported that "air pollution is disproportionately caused by white Americans' consumption of goods and services, but disproportionately inhaled by Black and Hispanic Americans." A few weeks later, the Women's Agenda website boasted that "when women make decisions the environment benefits," referencing a study of environmental management organizations in Tanzania, Indonesia, and Peru. So, in other words, when women of color make decisions, the environment benefits.
This is a common strategy of white feminism: to align with women of color when it suits, trumpeting a nonexistent sisterhood as a mask for appropriating our work to advance the myth of a better world run by women. The truth is, it is women of color, most especially Indigenous women, who are at the forefront of environmental rights because their own rights are inseparable from the battle for the environment.
According to the World Resources Institute, protecting Indigenous lands is among the most successful methods of fighting deforestation and climate change: remove such protections and environmental catastrophe is unavoidable. The battle for land rights is deadly. From 2002 to 2015, some 1,237 eco-activists were killed for defending (mostly) Indigenous lands.
2017 was the deadliest yet with around four activists killed per week. Indigenous women on the front lines who list their lives include Berta Cáceres, Lesbia Janeth Urquía, and Efigenia Vásquez. To dress this up as a warmhearted girl power story not only trivializes their work, it erases the danger such women are in."
Conclusion (Brown Scars), White Tears/Brown Scars- Ruby Hamad
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