Dr. Cecilia Martinez, Senior Fellow, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

Biden Senior Director for Environmental Justice Blames “Systemic Racism” for Climate Change

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

h/t The Blaze; Introducing your new government; NYT is celebrating the appointment of visionaries like Dr. Cecilia Martinez to Biden’s climate team. But Martinez has some interesting ideas of why climate action has made so little progress to date.

First the NYT piece praising Biden’s new team;

A ‘Nerve Center’ for Climate in the Biden White House

President Joseph R. Biden Jr. brings with him the largest team of climate change experts ever assembled in the White House, and action on global warming is expected quickly.

By Lisa Friedman
Published Jan. 19, 2021
Updated Jan. 21, 2021

WASHINGTON — Joseph R. Biden Jr. assumed the presidency on Wednesday, bringing an expansive team of climate change experts to staff a White House that is preparing to focus on global warming in a way no other administration has done before.

Mr. Biden enters office with the largest team ever assembled inside the White House to tackle global warming and has installed policy experts at the State Department as well as the National Security Council, the president’s top advisory body for all foreign policy decisions. The Treasury Department, the Transportation Department and the office of Vice President Kamala Harris all will have dedicated climate policy staff, with more hires expected in the coming days throughout the government.

Cecilia Martinez, a prominent advocate for addressing racial inequality in environmental policies, will serve as senior director for environmental justice at the Council on Environmental Quality. Tarak Shah, a former Energy Department official under Mr. Obama is also expected to be chief of staff to Jennifer Granholm, the nominee to be Energy Secretary.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/climate/biden-climate-change.html

What Cecilia had to say about systemic racism and climate change;

Dr. Cecilia Martinez, Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy 

“For too long, systemic racism and injustice have disproportionately exposed economically disadvantaged communities, tribal communities, and communities of color to the highest levels of toxic pollution. As the current COVID-19 crisis demonstrates, the interconnection between environmental and health risks has created crisis conditions for communities already battling toxic pollution that causes respiratory and other illnesses. Unless intentionally interrupted, systemic racism will continue to be a major obstacle to creating a healthy planet. The only path forward is to design national climate policies that are centered on justice. CEED welcomes the Select Committee’s climate policy report, which is centered on equitable climate solutions that will build an inclusive, just and pollution-free economy that works for all people. The report supports many of the policy priorities in the Equitable and Just National Climate Platform, including ensuring a healthy climate and air quality for all, and access to reliable, affordable, and sustainable electricity, water, and transportation for every community. In particular, CEED welcomes the report’s recommendations to ensure that all communities share the benefits of expanded investment in energy efficiency improvements and renewable energy and a prosperous and vibrant clean economy.”

Source: 2019 Equitable and Just Press Release (PDF Copy)

The house committee plan Cecilia praised is available here.

Cecilia appeared on Time Magazine’s 2020 list of the 100 most influential people.

It will be fascinating to see how Cecilia progresses her ideas for eliminating systemic racism, to drive forward climate action. No doubt the efforts of Cecilia and other members of Biden’s team will produce newsworthy hi-lights in the years to come.

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Meab
January 25, 2021 8:50 am

As energy becomes more expensive under the Biden administration the poor will be hit disproportionately hard. Duh. Just another case of “progressive” policies that are actually regressive. You might actually be able to make the case that it’s Biden’s policies that are, in-fact, racist.

Olen
January 25, 2021 8:59 am

What is missing in his cabinet and appointments are good looking women with a sense of how the air works. And maybe some smart enough to know you can’t sell climate with social justice.

Reginald R. Muskett, Ph.D.
January 25, 2021 8:59 am

Grand Inquisitor Talk’m’out’t’a Proclaims, “The Light Of The ‘Son’ Is Produced By … Systematic Racism!”

Let’s face it … You can’t Talk’m’out’t’a anything. Mel … Queue the ‘Girls’ … Orchestra … Los!

https://youtu.be/LnF1OtP2Svk

😀

John Kelly
January 25, 2021 8:59 am

Frightening.

Reply to  John Kelly
January 25, 2021 9:24 am

Yes indeed, beginning w/that alarming visage.

Bruce Cobb
January 25, 2021 9:26 am

Oh Cecilia, you’re breakin’ my heart.

January 25, 2021 9:30 am

Cecilia, you’re breaking the bank,
You’re tanking the economy daily.
Oh Cecilia, we’re down on our knees,
We’re begging you please — go outside & freeze.
Oh oh oh.

ht /Simon and Garfunkel

Bruce Cobb
Reply to  beng135
January 25, 2021 10:39 am

Come on, man! That’s just racist!

ResourceGuy
January 25, 2021 9:44 am

Will her jet be parked with the others at Davos?

Walter Sobchak
January 25, 2021 9:58 am

Putney Swope:

Putney Swope, the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm, is accidentally put in charge after the sudden death of the chairman of the board: prevented by the company by-laws from voting for themselves, in a secret ballot, most board members voted for the one person they thought could not win: Putney Swope.

Walter Sobchak
January 25, 2021 10:01 am

Wokeism and “Climate Science” are equally nonsensical. So package them together. Sort of like V8 juice.

Walter Sobchak
Reply to  Walter Sobchak
January 25, 2021 11:24 am

Another blast from the past: Harmonic Convergence.

Harmonic Convergence is a supernatural phenomenon that occurs once every ten thousand years. When the planets align, spiritual energy is greatly amplified, causing the spirit portals at the North and South Poles to merge, while an aura of spirit energy envelops the Earth.

Wokeism + “Climate Science = Idiocracy

Reply to  Walter Sobchak
January 25, 2021 7:02 pm

The current moronic convergence … occurs intermittently, when times are good, food is plentiful, and leisure time is abundant, allowing those with lessor mental prowess to merge together in the cities (and to a lessor extent the rural areas), then like herd animals, all clamoring together and running in the same direction.

They either go over the cliff together or get tired & hungry and stop to rest after stampeding over friends and foe alike.

Ghowe
Reply to  Walter Sobchak
January 27, 2021 3:35 am

Once we get rid of all the V8 motors w their harmonic balancers, maybe. Dawn of the age of aquarius, I heard.

SC Joyce
January 25, 2021 11:05 am

“Biden Senior Director for Environmental Justice Blames “Systemic Racism” for Climate Change”
Actually, I think it is the Climate Change Hoax and its “fixes” that are significant sources of “systemic racism”.

fred250
January 25, 2021 11:45 am

Interesting that not one of the libtard trolls has come out in defense of these utterly moronic appointments.

Richard Page
Reply to  fred250
January 25, 2021 1:18 pm

Some things are just universally stupid. I’m guessing more than a few are scratching their heads and asking themselves if this is what they were really voting for.

January 25, 2021 12:52 pm

So if we all just stop being racist, climate change will be fixed? No money needed?

Done. Fixed. No more climate change. We are all saved.

u.k.(us)
January 25, 2021 2:25 pm

That cackling sound you hear in the recesses of your reptile brain…
They are there for a reason.

January 25, 2021 3:35 pm

Why would anyone self proclaim an organization named “Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy”? Sounds phony to me.

ResourceGuy
January 25, 2021 6:47 pm

A picture says a thousand words:

I got mine, now you get your own.

Paul of Alexandria
January 25, 2021 6:51 pm

We are so screwed. So is the environment.

January 26, 2021 2:13 am

Biden Senior Director for Environmental Justice Blames “Systemic Racism against Lesbians with a Disability and shoesize IQ” for Climate Change.There fixed it for ya

January 26, 2021 6:26 am

access to reliable, affordable, and sustainable electricity” This isnt going to happen with renewables.

Tom Abbott
January 26, 2021 3:23 pm

Systemic racism does not exist in the United States. It’s a myth created by the racist Democrats.

Racism is an individual choice.

There is no government rule specifying that certain groups should be discriminated against. That would be the case if there were systemic racism.

Systemic racism is just another tool in the radical Democrats toolbox. It’s just another way for them to call people who oppose them racists.

January 27, 2021 2:32 pm

So taking affordable portable energy away from poor people in Africa must be racial discrimination by she and Biden et al, since most people in Africa are brown or black-skinned?