California Fossil Fuel Infrastructure in Bakersfield

In an aerial view, Canada geese fly over pumpjacks in Kern River Oil Field extracting crude oil next to the Kern River in Bakersfield, California. Fossil fuel infrastructure in Arvin, California. Kern County, whose population is over half Latinx, is home to a bulk of California's oil production and agriculture. Facing the simultaneous challenges of fossil fuel racism and being in the center of the climate crisis, Kern County farmworker communities face interconnected and deliberate capitalist crises on all fronts.