It’s Getting Hot In Here

Van Jones wrote a great article for the Huffington Post about the (lack of) coverage of people of color in climate change media and why it matters so much, here’s a an excerpt:

“Magazines as diverse as Vanity Fair, Elle and Wired recently devoted entire issues to climate change, and to the growing enthusiasm for cutting-edge environmental solutions. The New York Times dedicated an entire section to the topic in late May.

But in all that coverage, non-white faces were hard to find. (Wired did not show a single person of color.)

Such reporting can leave the impression that global warming is somehow a “white issue.” Or that enthusiasm for clean energy, green choices and smarter policy is limited to wealthy elites.

That is simply not true. At least, not entirely.”