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The unbearable whiteness of being (an environmentalist)
From: The Environmentalist’s Dilemma
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Aknowledging his perspective as a white, heterosexual man, the author examines social crises being amplified by a colonialism and systemic racism, and their intersection with the climate crisis, suggesting a solution: a shared future in which land and leadership are equitably distributed and human well-being is explicitly tied to environmental justice.
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Arno Kopecky
Arno Kopecky is an environmental journalist and author whose dispatches from four continents have appeared in the Globe and Mail, The Walrus, the Literary Review of Canada, Reader’s Digest, and others. His last book, The Oil Man and the Sea, chronicled the battle to keep oil tankers out of British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest and was shortlisted for the 2014 Governor General’s Award. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.