“If living were a thing that money could buy, You know the rich would live, and the poor would die.” – All My Trials, Joan Baez Today's guest, Jovita Lee, is co-founder and vice president of Democracy Green, a North Carolina-based non-profit dedicated to environmental justice. The environmental movement has a long and shameful history of privileging certain parts of the environment over others. Specifically, it's focused on preserving spaces enjoyed by the rich, and where the rich live. The result is a nation in which environmental racism condemns poor people and people of color – regardless of income and economic status – to lives cut short by chronic conditions caused and worsened by pollutants and climate instability. How many factory farms are located near middle- and upper-class communities? How many toxic chemical plants and waste disposal facilities are sited near upscale suburbs? We are shocked when we see police officers killing Black people by depriving them of air. W...