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Post Carbon Fellow Majora Carter was interviewed in the Vancouver Observer about sustainability, urban wastelands and her community work.
From the article:
Carter: I feel like I have pivotal points almost every other day. Very early on, a pivotal moment was when I discovered that the community I was born and raised in was not the awful place that I thought it was because we were awful.
Our neighborhood was portrayed on the nightly news as a place where nothing good comes from. When you grow-up with that, you just think that it’s an inherently bad community. It wasn’t until I was grown that I learned about the institutional forces that perpetuated all of the bad things happening in our community.
Our neighborhood was continuously being used as the recipient for huge quantities of waste from the City and industrial structures, such as power generation stations.
I realized that there were forces beyond our control that were bringing these things into our community. In many cases the perpetual negativity had nothing to do with us. Because we were poor and we were of color, we seemed like an easy target. It was pivotal to realize that I could be a part of the solution and help people in my community become aware that they are not awful people, just because they happened to be born in this area.
I wanted to show them that we could push ourselves forward and live better without moving out of our community.
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