Environmentalism is an affluent, urban, white movement. As a result, the few rural residents and minorities in the fold become political poster children.
Eco-activist Barbara Dudley, a former philanthropy executive, told a 1992 meeting of the Environmental Grantmakers Association that the environmental movement was “an upper-class conservation, white movement. We have to face that fact. It’s true.”
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