Environment 101
Environmental Injustice: Communities
Environmental Injustice: Workers
Environmental Activism
100

Typical weather over decades

What is climate?

100

An area that has limited access to food that is affordable, fresh, and nutritious

What is a food desert?

100

The percentage of workers that are exposed to climate-related health hazards

What is 70%?

100

The goal that the benefits of climate action will be shared equitably among all people, including the maintenance of secure, high-quality, union jobs for workers

What is just transition?

200

The historical event that marked the initial significant uptick in carbon emissions

What is the Industrial Revolution?

200

The most reliable indicator of proximity to pollution in the United States

What is race?

200

The number of flights that were canceled due to the polar vortex in 2019

What is 2,000?

200

The event for which CWA partnered with over 1,000 organizations in support of climate justice

What is the People's Climate March?

300

The number of weather and climate disasters the U.S. has faced since 1980

What is 391?

300

This group of people has the highest death rate from asthma

Who are Black women?

300

The average individual work time lost to extreme heat per year

What is two weeks (88 hours)?

300

The CWA Convention that passed the resolution named "Securing Our Labor Rights in the Climate Transition"

What is the 78th CWA Convention?

400

How long ago the Earth was as hot as it is now

What is over 125,000 years ago?

400

The percentage of land that Indigenous nations have lost across the United States

What is 99%?

400

The year we are projected to lose 80 million full time jobs around the world because of climate change

When is 2030?

400

The Federal initiative whose goal is for 40% of the overall benefits of certain Federal climate, clean energy, affordable and sustainable housing, and other investments to flow to disadvantaged communities that are marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by pollution

What is the Justice40 Initative?

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