Roger Caiazza sent me the email below. It speaks for itself.
Subject: EPA Report Shows Disproportionate Impacts of Climate Change on Socially Vulnerable Populations
EPA Report Shows Disproportionate Impacts of Climate Change on Socially Vulnerable Populations in the United States
WASHINGTON (Sept. 2, 2021) — A new EPA analysis released today shows that the most severe harms from climate change fall disproportionately upon underserved communities who are least able to prepare for, and recover from, heat waves, poor air quality, flooding, and other impacts. EPA’s analysis indicates that racial and ethnic minority communities are particularly vulnerable to the greatest impacts of climate change. Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the United States: A Focus on Six Impact Sectors is one of the most advanced environmental justice studies to date that looks at how projected climate change impacts may be distributed across the American public.
“The impacts of climate change that we are feeling today, from extreme heat to flooding to severe storms, are expected to get worse, and people least able to prepare and cope are disproportionately exposed,” said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan “This report punctuates the urgency of equitable action on climate change. With this level of science and data, we can more effectively center EPA’s mission on achieving environmental justice for all.”
EPA’s new, peer-reviewed report shows the degree to which four socially vulnerable populations— defined based on income, educational attainment, race and ethnicity, and age—may be more exposed to the highest impacts of climate change. The report quantifies six types of impacts, including those to health from changes in air quality and extreme temperature, disruptions to weather-exposed workers, and flooding threats to property.
Key findings of the report include:
- That Black and African American individuals are projected to face higher impacts of climate change for all six impacts analyzed in this report, compared to all other demographic groups. For example, with 2°C (3.6°F) of global warming, Black and African American individuals are:
- 34% more likely to currently live in areas with the highest projected increases in childhood asthma diagnoses. This rises to 41% under 4°C (7.2°F) of global warming.
- 40% more likely to currently live in areas with the highest projected increases in extreme temperature related deaths. This rises to 59% under 4°C of global warming.
- That Hispanics and Latinos have high participation in weather-exposed industries, such as construction and agriculture, which are especially vulnerable to the effects of extreme temperatures. With 2°C (3.6°F) of global warming, Hispanic and Latino individuals are 43% more likely to currently live in areas with the highest projected reductions in labor hours due to extreme temperatures. With regards to transportation, Hispanic and Latino individuals are about 50% more likely to currently live in areas with the highest estimated increases in traffic delays due to increases in coastal flooding.
This significant study represents an important milestone in understanding the future impacts of climate change on different American populations, especially under resourced communities. Due to data and modeling limitations, this study is limited to the contiguous U.S. Future work will enhance both the coverage of other important areas, such as Hawaii and Alaska, and will explore additional impact sectors and measures of social vulnerability.
Today’s analysis will help further efforts being taken by the Biden Administration across the Federal government to advance environmental justice and to address the disproportionate impacts that climate change is having on vulnerable communities. During his first weeks in office, President Biden issued Executive Order 14008 on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, which established the first-ever White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, the White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council, and the Justice40 Initiative. Through the Justice40 Initiative, the Federal government is, for the first time in history, working to ensure that at least 40-percent of climate and clean energy investment benefits flow to disadvantaged communities.
Access the report: https://www.epa.gov/cira/social-vulnerability-report
Information about climate change: https://www.epa.gov/climate-change
Information about environmental justice: https://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice
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“Black and African American individuals are projected to face higher impacts of climate change for all six impacts analyzed in this report.”
No actual impacts observed? All projections? And we pay for this “work”?
How nice from the EPA which refused to pay $1.2 billion for poisoning Animas river in 2015.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gold-king-mine-spill-colorado-rivers-epa-claims/
Mother Nature ought to be sued for discrimination
What the EPA has missed is that southern states tend to have larger Black and Hispanic populations. Any warming will increase heat-related deaths in southern states while reducing cold-related deaths in northern states, creating disparate racial impact. In pursuit of “environmental justice”, the EPA is confusing demographics with discrimination.
Except it’s not getting hotter.
It’s getting less cold at night and in winter
That is not the same as getting hotter but it’s presented that way
“That Black and African American individuals are projected to face higher impacts of climate change for all six impacts analyzed in this report, compared to all other demographic groups. For example, with 2°C (3.6°F) of global warming, Black and African American individuals are:..
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I forget where I heard this argument, but it goes like this:
The ancestors of African Americans came from a tropical climate in West Africa, did they not? Meanwhile, the ancestors of Whites came from a cooler non-tropical climate in Europe.
Why then would African Americans be more detrimentally affected by a warming climate than Whites? What is/are the determining factor(s) involved here regarding environmental justice (assuming there actually is even a need for such a thing)? Politics?
I am not a racist. However, I wonder if I am seeing a logic problem here with the basis or premise for the environmental justice argument
So the EPA is ‘Racialising’ the climate discussion. Perhaps because the classic AGW meme is not working. Folks are quite used to ‘cancelling’ people on the ‘other side of the argument’. Perhaps we will see more of this.
“So the EPA is ‘Racialising’ the climate discussion. Perhaps because the classic AGW meme is not working.”
I think it has more to do with the radical Democrats raciallizing everything. The EPA is just one of many government entities promoting this type of propaganda.
The radical Democrats have the aim of dividing Americans one from another and using racism is one of their methods.
“That Hispanics and Latinos have high participation in weather-exposed industries, such as construction and agriculture…”
Last I checked, they are allowed to seek other jobs if they want so they are exposed voluntarily. I guess you could argue that we should stop all future immigration (legal and especially illegal) of Hispanics and Latinos in order to protect them.
Stop using “skin color” to type-cast people. Use economic data if you must, but a poor person is just as important no matter their skin color.
Environmental Justice is just a term to invoke victimhood. The roots of this sickness lies in Marxist ideology.
Marxist ideology invokes a two class struggle – the oppressor and the oppressed class. In classical Communist-Marxism these were the bourgeois and the proletariat. In the racist Critical Race Theory it is White Privilege (you are an oppressor merely by the color of your skin, which is patently racist) and everyone else who’s nonwhite are the oppressed victims. So anytime these libs put “Justice” after some descriptor it is this soft Marxist ideology at play of invoking an oppressors and victims setup. It is meant to provide license to socialists to impose cultural revolutions as remedies to then provide “justice.” Environmental Justice warriors divide society along a mentality of “polluters” and the “victims of pollution”. Invoking such constructs is meant to give the Left license to pursue radical change. This is totalitarian change which concentrates political power in the hands of a few and destroys individual rights and liberties, including personal property rights.
So very well said !
Another selective, opportunistic,
relativistic religion (e.g. Pro-Choice, ethics), when combined with the Twilight faith, is subject to conflation, obfuscation. That said, environmental justice anywhere is injustice everywhere.
Actually, this is a good development. The more visible these combined politicized racial and climate memes become, the sooner the average American will realize both (especially intermingled) are just ideological and cash-grabbing scams.
Can we please dump this “peer-reviewed” adulation. “Peer-review has never been anything but an editorial convenience and has become full blown dogma enforcement. It says nothing of value about a paper, especially in a politics laden discipline.
Lets say you want to start a new industry in town. Dirty, smelly, noisy, but (you hope) profitable. (Think steel mill, oil refinery et al)
City Code says “Not in town”. So you buy land way out on the outskirts of the city. The business starts up. The value of the surrounding property goes down. Who wants to live there?
People who can’t afford to live elsewhere.
Egg/Chicken? Cart/Horse?
It’s not so much that the value of the land goes down. Land substantially outside city limits has always been less valuable.
What happens is that people want to live close to where they work, but not so close that they have to suffer from pollution or noise.
Because of it’s proximity to the factory, land closest to the factory increases in price by the least, so it’s bought by those who can’t afford better.
Get a couple of miles from the factory, and land prices go up more, so those who can afford a longer commute and more expensive land move there.
The ultimate solution is not to punish those who have the wherewithal to afford better housing, but instead to allow the free market to increase the wealth of those who in the past had no choice but to look for the cheapest housing, no matter how bad.
G’Day MarkW
Thank you for expanding on my comment – I agree 100%.
I was going to add something about ‘company’ towns, using Caliente, Nevada as an example. It was a Division Point for the Union Pacific railroad. As you make the turn in town to go north towards Pioche – on the right hand side – a row of identical houses side by side for employees, or at least management.
Of course, the other thing about housing close to a ‘dirty’ industry – landlords who move in and throw up cheap houses or apartments.
(When I was typing the original comment I was distracted – a thunder storm. There’s two web sites that I follow for drown strikes during storms. I was spending time jumping from one to the other. Nearest strike – about 500 yards away.)
“The poor are always the hardest hit by climate change policy.”
Fixed it
“The poor are always hardest hit by any change” because they live a precarious balance.
How do the sell this nonsense with a straight face? The effects of climate mitigation won’t be detectable for decades IF models are correct. Meanwhile two generations of the poor will pay higher energy prices and see their best blue collar job opportunities exported to Asia.
The Biden administration want to make the country more like California where fresh water for agriculture is dumped in the sea, farm workers driving 10 yr old pickups subsidize electric vehicle for wealthy tech workers in Silicon Valley, and they pay exorbitant electricity prices to subsidize rooftop solar for wealthy home owners. Perhaps a more correct moniker for the EPA would be ESA for Environmental Serfdom Agency.
EPA Report Shows Disproportionate Impacts of Climate Change on Socially Vulnerable Populations in the United States
Rubbish.
More social justice crap to demonize some people and victimize others to gain political advantage through identity politics.
Can’t the vote fraud results be acted on already so we can push this home-wreaking regime off the cliff?
Unfortunately, no.
A string of buzz words. Nothing actually meant anything.
Please. Bring on the Mid Term Elections so we can shut down this Geriatric/Demented/Ahlzheimer “government”
Slightly disturbing how they adoring crowd are raising their right arms in a neo Nazi salute to her!!! Maybe it’s just me!!!