African American

I've seen and smelled the evidence. A sewage treatment plant was originally proposed for a site on the well-to-do and principally white Upper West Side of Manhattan. Because of that community's political clout, however, the plant was instead built a few miles to the north, in Harlem. It's nice that, after the construction of the plant, its vast roof was made into the popular Riverbank State Park -- but, depending on the weather and the wind, you can still smell the evidence of environmental racism.

Going forward: Unless the world makes very surprising progress on climate change, there will, by the end of this century, be several million climate refugees, the vast majority of them POC. The Ganges Delta is particularly vulnerable.