Universidade Federal Fluminense

This debate seeks to confront environmental racism by looking at how racial and socioeconomic inequalities shape the unjust distribution of environmental risks and impacts, both on a global scale (Global South) and in our local reality. Understanding how marginalized communities are often burdened with pollution, waste disposal and vulnerability to disasters, reflecting on how post-consumer practices can be transformed to promote justice and sustainability, rather than reinforcing inequalities, with education and communication as tools to empower voices that have been invisibilized by racism to deconstruct unjust narratives and promote a change in mentality.