Out of the Wilderness: The Mainstream Green Movement Heads toward People of Color: Scientific American

A little over a decade ago, the major players in the environmental movement tried to take on Florida’s sugar producers. The industry’s fertilizers were polluting the Everglades, and the environmentalists asked Florida voters to approve a penny-per-pound tax on sugar companies that would yield $35 million a year for cleanup work.

But “Big Sugar” responded with a multimillion-dollar campaign to portray the environmentalists as white elitists attempting to weaken an industry that employed blacks and Latinos….