A major step in stopping endless environmental damage is directly tied to human rights. When marginalized communities can't have their living areas turned into pollution dumps, workers can't be exposed to dangerous chemicals? You get drastically reduced and controlled pollution compared to without.

The other effect is that basically, here in the US, and many other places; racism is the perfect scapegoast strategy that stops saving the planet. The fear based shit of "they'll take your burgers" doesn't work so well when people aren't already hyped up on conspiratorial genocidal logics.