Climate Anxiety Is an Overwhelmingly White Phenomenon

People of color are disproportionately harmed by climate change, but whites disproportionately fret publicly about it. Getty Images

Climate change and its effects—pandemics, pollution, natural disasters—are not universally or uniformly felt: the people and communities suffering most are disproportionately Black, Indigenous and people of color. It is no surprise then that U.S. surveys show that these are the communities most concerned about climate change.