Environmental justice workshop offers advice for activists at the People’s Summit on Food Systems and Urban Agriculture in Louisville, KY

by by Darla Carter | Presbyterian News Service

From the article:

The panel was directed at those interested in environmental justice, which relates to the right to live, work and play in healthy environments and the need to push back against environmental racism, which leads to people of color and low-income people being disproportionately exposed to health hazards, such as contaminated drinking water and polluted air.

It’s a topic that’s highlighted in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) document “Investing in a Green Future: A Vision for a Renewed Creation” (2022). It states that “we believe that God is calling the church to the trifold work of environmental justice, racial justice and economic justice” and describes a vision that includes “an environment renewed, better health outcomes, living wage jobs, clean air and water, wilderness preserved for its own sake, access to healthy food and the reparation of broken relationships.”