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  • Latino activism leads in grassroot efforts on climate change

    06/12/2022 1:01:26 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 52 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | June 12, 2022 | By ANITA SNOW (D-AP)
    PHOENIX (AP) — … After experiencing global warming’s firsthand effects, U.S. Latinos are leading the way in activism around climate change, often drawing on traditions from their ancestral homelands. “There has been a real national uprising in Latino activism in environmentalism in recent years,” said Juan Roberto Madrid, an environmental science and public health specialist based in Colorado for the national nonprofit GreenLatinos. “Climate change may be impacting everyone, but it is impacting Latinos more.” U.S. Latinos often live in ignored, lower income neighborhoods that are degrees hotter than nearby areas because they have a higher population density and limited...