Sheelah mclean biography

Indigenous, Black, and other racialized and marginalized communities are disproportionately vulnerable to the climate crisis resulting from their greater exposure to environmental racism in the form of pollution and contamination from nearby industry, as well as their residence in regions where they are more likely to be impacted by rising sea levels, disappearing shorelines, frequent and heavy rainfall, raging storms and floods, intense heat waves, increasing wildfire, and poor air quality that hit them first and worst.

In this presentation, Dr. Ingrid Waldron (Professor & HOPE Chair in Peace and Health, Global Peace and Social Justice Program, Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University) will discuss the relationship between environmental racism and climate change inequities and their impacts in Indigenous, Black, and other marginalized communities in Canada. She will examine Canada’s role in creating and maintaining environmental racism and climate change in Sheelah mclean biography images!