If you’re interested in sharing your opinion on any cultural, political or personal topic, create an account here and check out our how-to post to learn more. ____ As temperatures drop and notions of family and warmth dominate for another year, many around the country are bracing for another harsh winter. Year after year, the severity and frequency of extreme weather have increased and are likely to continue doing so, putting so many communities in harm’s way — often without the support they need to prepare and recover. In 2021, at COP26, global leaders admitted their failure to meet their climate change mitigation goals. They attributed this to the US’s failure to invest in frontline communities, and to global refusal to add climate reparations to the new global climate plan. This is an act of global violence against those on the frontlines: Black and Indigenous communities. Time and again the storms of the season have been particularly dangerous for Black communities in...
