Final remarks
In science, racial diversity benefits the quality, quantity, and impact
of discoveries. However, there are moral obligations beyond the
immediate benefit of diversity to science to include the voices of those
who will continue to be most affected by our ongoing environmental and
climate crises. Racially diverse communities and broader society will
ultimately be the beneficiaries of efforts to achieve fair
representation of BIPOC scholars, and we assert that this push must
ultimately come from those who wield power in the Academy. The immediacy
and immensity of the world’s ecological problems and environmental
problems demand that EEB make room for BIPOC scholars.