Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Too much focus on protecting white polar bears, not enough focus on protecting “marginalized communities”.
Fighting Climate Change Means Fighting Inequality And Intolerance
No issue exists in a vacuum, including climate change.
By Phil Newell
07/03/2018 11:34 am ET…
Prejudice undermines science
Last month, Nexus Media reported on a study that found that in the years after Barack Obama took office, white Americans were less likely to see climate change as a serious problem. The finding held even after controlling for partisanship, ideology, education, church attendance and employment. The study further noted a link between racial resentment and climate change denial. While this research leaves many questions unanswered, its findings accord with the experience of many people of color who work on climate change.
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A lack of diversity undermines advocacy
Like scientific bodies, large environmental groups are guilty of a lack of diversity. These organizations are largely bereft of the talents and perspectives of people of color. For years, advocates have focused on threats to polar bears while ignoring the more immediate and disturbing threats that air pollution and climate change pose to marginalized communities. African-American children, for example, die from asthma attacks at ten times the rateof their white peers, and yet Americans are more likely to see climate change as an environmental issue than a public health issue.
University of Michigan sociologist Dorceta Taylor explained how green groups should address this disparity in a recent interview with Yale360. “One of the things they should be doing is stop being so afraid of people of color, and meet them, interact with them, cultivate them, and start recruiting them,” she said. “If all the people I talked to, and knew, and interacted with were black, no one would take me particularly seriously — I have to engage multi-culturally.”
Xenophobia obscures the suffering of climate refugees
It is impossible to ignore the allegations of drugging, water contamination and physical and mental abuse of children at the hands of the American government. The separation of immigrant families will likely have long-term psychological ramifications on these children. This is a crisis of humanity and, like most everything else, it too has a climate connection.
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Misogyny and heteronormativity hamper our responses to climate change
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I’m must say I’m impressed by Phil’s effort, he clearly spends a lot of time late at night sitting up thinking about the interconnections between various issues.
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In the French revolution the initial revolutionaries proved far too revolutionary for succeeding revolutionaries. Likewise almost every other revolution: the best way to seize control is to be even more radical. Clearly the PC mafia are now sharpening their knives seeing that the global warming scam is failing and their leadership is weak.
The climate justice movement should include Venezuelans who fled the communist dictatorship and are now in Colombia under the freezing rain.
Desperation.
Can we have Michael Mann’s work banned from all learned journals on the grounds that he’s a white privileged male?
I was an AGW believer…but then I started researching. Thanks WUWT!
Loosely related to this article…maybe people are tiring of all this SJW nonsense? Check out the #walkaway movement. It’s absolutely huge; let’s hope the momentum continues! He mentions ‘junk science’ too : ).
Welcome to the club, Sylvia!
Thanks, I’ve been reading widely and have been completely shocked at what I’ve found. I’m now working very hard to reveal the lie to all and sundry, starting with family and friends. Hopefully other ‘club’ members will bear with me if I ask dumb questions. I want to have my facts absolutely straight.
“Heteronormativity”? How many of his brain
cells died to create that 50 cent monstrosity?
Would anyone disagree with me if I said: “I don’t give a damn. Now I am going to get another beer.”
It seems people of color are smart enough to know that being oppressed by elitists won’t lead to better weather.
There it is again. The phrase “people of colour.” I was brought up to believe it is rude to refer to people by the colour of their skin.
There is, seriously, an active cadre of the Red Guard in the USA at the moment.
I have plenty of colours in my family. I don’t want people to refer to that. I’m sick and tired of people talking about whites and non-whites as a group. And yes, while there is a correlation somewhere, ‘white’ something, ‘black’ something else, it ain’t true in this house.
I’m European, my colour is all right. So are others. Period.
Maybe “diversity” does it when “climate change” doesn’t work.
Eric Worrall :
“No issue exists in a vacuum, including climate change.
By Phil Newell”……….SERIOUSLY !!?????
Are YOU now ALSO having a lend of us !!???
Is there a FOURTH OF JULY TRADITION
like the FIRST OF APRIL TRADITION : OF APRIL FOOL’S DAY…..or what ??
This ( alleged ) author’s name fits into that UNLIKELY CATEGORY of a crude joke !
Like the two………..”companions” ………of Ben Dover and Phillip McCavity notoriety !!
I find it hard to believe …..EITHER the name …OR the article !!
“I’m must say I’m impressed by Phil’s effort, he clearly spends a lot of time late at night sitting up thinking about the interconnections between various issues.”
““One of the things they should be doing is stop being so afraid of people of color ”
WHY NOT ! GREEN IS A COLOUR ( spelt correctly of course ! )
and lately it has become ALARMING !
BLACK and WHITE are NOT COLOURS……..they are NEUTRALS !!!
It’s a non sequitur
Celebrate Individualism. You can’t have diversity without it.
Climate “justice” = social “justice” = “we are all equal, but some of us are more equal than others” = Stalinism. Their dream is to see World Government, under their red/green banner.
Living with a person with asthma, I have had to learn a lot about it. The statistic about people of color (if you dig deep it is African Americans) dying at ten times the rate as white (actually all others), is regularly thrown out. Asthma does have a genetic component. As for air quality for years it was about ozone. Ozone and asthma were used to pass much of California air quality rules. After the courts allowed EPA to include CO2 as a health danger suddenly it became a primary cause in the social justice lexicon. Yet the causes are far more obvious. Most of the asthma deaths are in the inner city, where air quality other than CO2 is a problem and where roach and rats, whose droppings can trigger asthma attacks, are ubiquitous. Health care while available through Medicaid is often not utilized, or if utilized, not done so in a proper and consistent fashion. Asthma patients require constant surveillance by partners and caregivers that understand the illness and what to do during an attack.
Even though the environmental elites are generally Leftist they really do not care about minorities or the economic disadvantaged except when helping to drive their agenda.
Correction ==> “Phil’s effort, he clearly spends a lot of time late at night sitting up HALLUCINATING about the interconnections between various issues. “
Misogyny and heteronormativity hamper our responses to climate change
Straight out of the ivory sewers. You just couldn’t make this crap up…..
“Like scientific bodies, large environmental groups are guilty of a lack of diversity. These organizations are largely bereft of the talents and perspectives of people of color.”
Do the math. the overwhelming majority of the “people of color” i.e. the black population, which comprises 12.8 percent of all of us (without counting ILL EAGLES which would drive that percentage down) live in urban centers. Recent non-partisan studies revealed that the Urban Public School system is graduating high school students with and average 8th grade reading proficiency and 4th grade math skills. Half the graduates can’t read their diplomas or count the strings in their mortarboard tassel.
Therefore talent and perspective would be limited from their population. Now consider that the Universities offering minority scholarships have become vocal about the sad truth that these Urban Public School graduates can’t read at college level and have therefore taken on the task of teaching basic reading writing and arithmetic. Four years later they are forced to manufacturing new degree offerings in Urban Studies, Gender Studies, and Community Organizing in order to hand them a college diploma and send them on their way. Seems after the 3 r’s and basic social “injustice” science there just aren’t enough credit hours in a 4 year degree to advance them to their rightful place in environmental groups to offer up their talent and perspectives,
Just about everything in society can be made into a racial issue if you try hard enough.
Doubt that the greens hate any race of folks more than they hate mankind in general, What Newell posted was off the rail. (nyuk, nyuk, nyuk)
Why would those who would be most hurt by climate change policies be willing to volunteer to help activists bring them to enactment? Maybe they don’t get fooled by scare propaganda as easily as easily as those who have been taught to carry the guilt of their ancestors’ conquests.
I expect the fact that the African slave trade was perpetuated with the willing cooperation of the native tribes, who raided rival tribes to capture slaves to trade for rum and guns, is conveniently swept under the rug in history curriculums. That’s “diversity” the so-called progressives don’t want you to know about. Such nuance has no place in the One True Narrative that declares whites to be the reprobate Oppressor and all others to be the doe-eyed innocent Oppressed.
“University of Michigan sociologist Dorceta Taylor explained how green groups should address this disparity in a recent interview with Yale360. ‘One of the things they should be doing is stop being so afraid of people of color, and meet them, interact with them, cultivate them, and start recruiting them,’ she said.”
— Interact, cultivate and recruit… reminds me of the grooming process employed by molesters of children.
There is an idea, been around a long time – its called ‘Division of Labour’
If you don’t know already, check it out.
In simplicity, it says that ‘Some people are good at some things and other people are good at other things’
2 examples:
#1:
I have twin daughters – soon to be 27 years old. At birth, their DNA was tested to see if they were sisters or clones. They are clones, one egg split into 2
They are both blonde and crazy about animals, especially horses.
One is scientist, mathematician, musician & artist. Is cautious by nature, right handed and 5′ 9″ tall. Working in a research lab in Cambridge.
The other is turned cold by most of those things especially maths. She is a fearless gymnast, scared of nothing (riding neglected, semi-wild horses being her speciality) and has found a vocation caring for disabled adults in NW England. Is 5′ 7″ tall and is left-handed.
#2:
As a sport of zero interest to me but a thing went past a little while ago concerning a well known coach/manager of (I think) a basketball team in the US. Had devoted his entire working life to the sport. A white guy. Maybe you know what’s coming.
In a TV interview when he’d mooted maybe retiring, he was asked why no managers/financiers in the sport were ‘people of colour’ when all the players were.
To him, with decades within the sport, it was no secret why.
His words were that “Black guys haven’t got what it takes and they will be the first to say as much. Finance and management turns them off’
Of course, his entire life’s work and career ended at that moment.
Many many people came out to defend him, all to no avail.
So we have here from the HuffPo
And what is Positive Discrimination if not a variation on Appeasement. That being a version of Positive Feedback = something guaranteed to end in disaster wherever/whenever it manifests.
What went wrong?
Why are the turkeys voting for Christmas/Thanksgiving…
I don’t remember the last time I saw a black accountant, or black bank teller, or similar. I’m sure they’re around, but they seem remarkably rare.
Rich people with time on their hands. Everyone else is busy making a living. Great example of Maslow, way past esteem and spending far too much time self actualizing.
with no support whatsoever linking it to Climate™, or Climate Change™, or Global Warming™, or Climate Disruption™, or Environmental Weirding™, or Flavor of the Month™, or Number of Pirates In The Caribbean (or was that World Wide?), or…
Are you really expecting rational thought from these “Watermelons” ? LOL
They’ll eat their young, given half a chance.
Indeed. It’s -20C, pitchdark without a modern grid, and snowing. A bus full of Syrians appears on the border claiming asylum.
I’m sure it was the climate that was the problem.