...“People who have systematically been left out of the conversation on climate change are the ones who are going to bear the brunt of it,” said communications assistant for the Center for Constitutional Rights, Alex Webster: “Because of the global phenomenon of anti-Blackness, because of the global effects of the slave trade; people who are left in the Caribbean, or on the costal cities and most impacted by climate change, they are Brown and Black, they are poor, and they do not have the means to move to the central parts of the country to get away from the effects of climate change.” ...

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