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How To Be White at the End of the World
From: I Want a Better Catastrophe
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In this chapter, Boyd explores how class, social power, and race contribute to how a person is impacted by the climate crisis. Boyd discusses the concept of "an equitable distribution of suffering" and assesses how his privilege impacts his own climate activism.
Contributors
Andrew Boyd
Andrew Boyd is a writer, humorist, activist, and CEO (Chief Existential Officer) of the Climate Clock, a global campaign that blends art, science, and grassroots organizing to get the world to #ActInTime on climate. He also co-created the grief-storytelling ritual the Climate Ribbon; founded the art-activist toolbox Beautiful Trouble, and led the 2000s-era satirical campaign Billionaires for Bush. Andrew's previous books include Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe and Life's Little Deconstruction Book: Self-Help for the Post-Hip. His lifelong ambition, cribbed from Milan Kundera, is "to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form." Andrew lives in New York City.
