Fires and farmworkers: Climate justice means improving protections for migrant farmworkers
The impacts of the climate crisis are socially and geographically uneven: the wealthiest regions contribute disproportionately to the destruction of the planet while the poorest regions suffer the heaviest consequences. In this context, migrant farmworkers find themselves doubly displaced, facing droughts and inundations in their home countries, then heatwaves, fires and floods where they come to work. Environmental leaders came together in BC this summer to call for a holistic approach to the climate crisis, but an earnest uptake of this call means we need to redress the racism of the legislated precarity of migrant work in this province.
