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National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Statement on the Climate Crisis.

  

NACCS – STATEMENT ON THE CLIMATE CRISIS

Released: October 29,2019 8:45AM, NACCS National Office, San Jose State U.

The NACCS board believes it is important to have our voice as part of the global movement against climate chaos, and we have asked NACCS environmental scholars Dr. Devon Peña and Dr. Gabriel Valle to compose the following statement:

The NACCS Climate Crisis Statement

The climate change crisis is affecting all living organisms and ecosystems on the planet but the enduring effects of decades of environmental racism are resulting in disparate impacts. Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC), including Chicanx/Latinx populations, are already suffering major deleterious effects from this global process of environmental violence.

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