Characterizations of black public figures in the mainstream–and sometimes within formal academic research–often reinforce the erroneous notion that black people do not care about or are indifferent to issues pertaining to the natural environment.
Growing up in a dominant black community, recycling, and the reduction of electricity wasn’t strictly enforced until later on when social media became popular and brought it attention. I don’t think it’s that black people don’t care about the environment, they just were not educated well on the issue and that is an issue that has to do with class division.