Blue Voces: ‘Engaging local communities is key to achieving climate justice’
Louis Rosado Burch, Connecticut Program Director at Citizens Campaign for the Environment, has spent the past 10 years working with local communities to help protect the Long Island Sound, a natural estuary of national significance. It is here where the state’s fresh water systems combine with salt water from the ocean. “It’s our little doorway to the Atlantic,” says Rosado Burch.
Unfortunately, he says, high-density populations are significant contributors to storm water and waste water pollution that affect the state’s waterways. At the same time, “communities of color are disproportionately at risk from the health and economic impacts of inner city polution.”
For Rosado Burch, it is impossible to have a meaningful conversation about protecting the environment without talking about environmental justice.
In our latest installment of #BlueVoces, Latinx speak against offshore drilling, hear from Rosado Burch, about the work he is doing and why working with the local communities in protecting the environment is crucial to achieving climate justice.
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