CYCC’s commitment to creating a more sustainable planet provides us with the responsibility to examine how all forms of oppression are interconnected and how they correspond to the degradation of the physical environment. Historically, the leadership of the mainstream environmental movement – including CYCC – has tended to be mostly white, and mostly people of affluence. This leaves out some of the groups of people most affected by environmental degradation, like communities of color, whose leadership in the struggle to create a more sustainable planet continues to be marginalized, as it has been for 500 years.
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