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The Climate Crisis, Part 1
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
25 Aug 2023
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Black Agenda Radio · The Climate Crisis

Forrest Palmer is an electrical engineer residing in Houston, Texas. Outside of his professional life, his personal concern is about environmental issues and their increasing impacting on daily life, as well as the past and current ethnic hierarchy that is the basis of systemic global racism. Forrest Palmer joins us from Houston to discuss the record-breaking warming of the earth and its impact on Black people. (Part 2)

environmental damage
environmental racism
Climate Justice
Climate Crisis
global warming

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