Sharpton at W.H. Faith Symposium: Global Warming Hurts Blacks Most

“For me and many of the champions that you will see today, it is an issue of justice and it is an issue of human rights. African Americans are at a higher risk of being close, or predisposed to areas of carbon as well as other poisonous pollution in the air. And we have a disproportionate interest because we suffer disproportionately. 

I remember, years ago when some in our [indecipherable] community – in civil rights community, notably champion (indecipherable) and others raised this, we acted as that was a foreign language. But we breed it every day, we live it every day. So as we have fought -- and this administration has made history with healthcare, you cannot on the one hand say that we want everyone to have great healthcare but not everyone have great health. And you cannot not deal with climate change as a health issue, as a moral issue, and as a civil rights issue.”