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January 20, 2006

Racist Weather

According to BET.com — the outfit that recently named Louis Farrakhan Person of the Year — even the weather is racist:

Citing Katrina as a case-in-point, some environmentalists say global warming impacts minorities and the disadvantaged harder than other groups. If global warming gets worse, many African-American communities will be more vulnerable to breathing ailments, insect-carried diseases and heat-related illness and death.

Naturally, whitey is to blame:

Blacks are environmental Good Samaritans. Per capita, we emit approximately 20 percent less carbon dioxide than Whites.

But persons of chocolateness are not completely above approach. Led astray by capitalism, some ride around in SUVs instead of taking the bus.

"It has been ingrained in our heads that to be anything, you must have everything," says EJCC steering committee member Nia Robinson. "Because some of us have a big car and a nice house, people aren't seeing that racism still exists. But Katrina showed that racism is alive and well in America. Now that people have that idea, I think we're in a really critical stage to organize, educate and mobilize people."

EJCC stands for Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative. Justice will be accomplished as usual by punishing the productive for not being poor. After all, poor people pollute less, right? Poverty makes blacks environmentally righteous, according to BET.com:

Not only do we use more energy-conserving public transportation, we spend considerably less per capita on energy-intensive material goods.

Never mind that environmental protection is a luxury only the richest countries can afford — as anyone who has been to India can attest.

President Bush is excoriated because he "opted out of the Kyoto protocol global warming treaty." Actually, it was the Senate that preemptively opted out of that economic suicide pact 95–0, several years before Bush became President.

The piece doesn't mention that greenhouse emissions are going up faster in many countries that signed Kyoto than they are in the USA, despite our faster economic growth. But then it also doesn't mention that temperature fluctuations are normal, that there is no evidence that they are caused by human activity, or that the whole concept of "global warming" is based on myth.

Hat tips: Wiggins, William

Posted by Van Helsing at January 20, 2006 4:59 PM