Climate justice advocate leads tar sands protests

By Alana Power

Climate justice is high on the list of priorities for Toban Black.
Black heads up the group Mobilization for Climate Justice at the University of Western Ontario. He is working on his PhD in sociology, but that doesn’t stop him from being an environmental activist.
His group serves as advocates for the people who are harmed by climate problems.
“We look at who is more responsible for climate problems and who is harmed by climate problems and how that responsibility and that harm falls along the lines of injustices like racism and class inequalities,” he said.
However some people say that the justice issues are not really open to his group’s point [...]