As climate change reshapes the planet, leaders need to hear every perspective when determining conservation policies, minority advocates say.
since the early 1980s have found communities of color feel the impact of pollution and climate change more acutely than wealthy areas.
Sociologists offer a number of explanations for the lack of diversity in conservation ranks. For instance, people of color tend to live in urban settings with less exposure to the outdoors and may consider outdoor recreation a white man’s domain, said Kristy Drutman, the Filipino and Jewish founder of the Green Jobs Board, an online listing of environmental jobs with companies promoting diversity. She also runs the Brown Girl Green podcast.
Relatively few people of color study biology and natural resources in college. Hispanic people made up only about 13.6% of graduate students and 12.8% of doctoral students in those fields in 2021, according to a . Black people made up about 9.5% of graduate students and only 6% of doctoral students. Native Americans made up less than 1% of graduate and doctoral students in both fields.
This year the organization created two all-women crews that operate out of Idaho. The organization also for crews working on ancestral lands in hopes of encouraging them to find environmental jobs with their tribes. “Sometimes I’ll hear about children’s programming on different natural things. I’m thinking, what opportunities do you have for people who don’t speak English?” she said. “Are you reaching out to diverse communities?”
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