Title: ‘Intersectional Environmentalist’ Platform by Leah Thomas Launches
Headings: ‘Intersectional Environmentalist’ Platform Launches to Dismantle Racism in the Climate Movement
‘Intersectional Environmentalist’ Platform Launches to Dismantle Racism in the Climate Movement
What is intersectional environmentalism?
Leah Thomas promoted the idea of “intersectional environmentalism” in an Instagram post.
Thomas was inspired by intersectional feminism.
Intersectional Environmentalist provides activists with free resources.
Environmentalism is an intersectional social justice issue.
Being an intersectional environmentalist is a show of support for the Black Lives Matter movement.

Content: ‘Intersectional Environmentalist’ Platform by Leah Thomas Launches
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‘Intersectional Environmentalist’ Platform Launches to Dismantle Racism in the Climate Movement
By Sophie Hirsh
Aug. 18 2020, Updated 2:25 p.m. ET
In an Instagram post last month, Leah Thomas, a climate activist better known online as Green Girl Leah, popularized the phrase “intersectional environmentalism,” a form of climate justice that “advocates for both the protection of people and the planet.” Now, just a few weeks later, what simply started as a social media post about an inclusive, anti-racist branch of environmentalism is already blossoming into a new fixture of the current environmental activism zeitgeist. To learn more about Thomas, why environmentalism should be an intersectional movement, and how she created the Intersectional Environmentalist platform — in record time — we caught up with Thomas in a video call this week. Article continues below advertisement
What is intersectional environmentalism? Source: Courtesy of Leah Thomas
“Intersectional environmentalism [is] the type of environmentalism where both people and the planet are considered, so both social and environmental justice are considered, and [they're] talked about in the same conversation. Because in my opinion those things are so interconnected,” Thomas explains to Green Matters in a video chat Monday afternoon, June 15. “ When you look at the data with environmental racism, and who unfortunately feels the impacts the harshest right now of environmental injustices, it’s typically low-income and Black and Brown communities. So I just think that it’s something that needs to be talked about in the environmental movement.”