The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice.

In the modest description of I The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice i , Melissa Checker (2020) explains the book's aim to investigate the contradictions within New York City's sustainability quests, and its impacts on marginalized communities and urban gentrification. While Checker does praise the Stop FEMA Now movement for its ability to transcend politics, it does leave out some of the more subtle problems of bypassing ideological differences, such as overt and institutional racism. Checker concludes with a case study of the Stop FEMA Now movement on Staten Island, which addresses wetland development that places the community at high risk for flooding that will only be exacerbated by climate change. [Extracted from the article]