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Latinos Are Ready to Battle Climate Change if EPA Will Include Them in the Fight
Care2 ^ | 12/02/13 | LucĂ­a Oliva Hennelly

Posted on 12/25/2013 2:57:25 PM PST by Libloather

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What my experiences do not include are those that are far too common among Latino 18-year-olds who are disproportionately affected by carbon pollution. Carbon pollution contributes directly to climate change, in turn endangering Latinos due to the resulting health and environmental repercussions. One expected climate impact in the U.S. is more smog in areas with poor air quality, translating to more asthma attacks for our young people. In fact, the Latino community is one of the hardest hit: Hispanic children are nearly two times as likely to be hospitalized for asthma as white children. Other illnesses related to poor air quality, such as chronic bronchitis, are also prevalent within Latino communities, yet nearly half of all Latinos in the U.S. live in counties that often violate ground-level pollution standards.

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When one community bears a greater share of these burdens than do others, the issues transcend health and climate concerns and become ones of social and environmental justice. I testified to EPA because Latino communities are disproportionately affected by carbon pollution and climate change. My hope and expectation is that EPA will issue the strongest possible standards in order to safeguard the futures of communities like my own. The vast majority of our Latino communities support government action to limit carbon pollution and “more energy from clean sources,” so when it comes to creating strong rules, EPA has Latino support.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangehoax; doomage; epa; fraud; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; latinos; liberalagenda
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The hoax is racist.
1 posted on 12/25/2013 2:57:25 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Attempt number 55,362 to tie environmentalism to racial tribalism in the United States.


2 posted on 12/25/2013 3:02:55 PM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: Libloather

Then go back to Mexico...where sewage flows in the street ditches, where the water can make you ill for months...


3 posted on 12/25/2013 3:04:39 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Libloather

“if EPA Will Include Them in the Fight”

Translation: More free sh*t.


4 posted on 12/25/2013 3:05:29 PM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: Libloather

LOL! Is this satire or has somebody been hittin’ the marijuana stash? It is good to know that the “Latino” tribe is ready to save the planet. They’ll change their minds though when they find out how much it’s going to cost them to participate in the “climate change” hoax and scam.


5 posted on 12/25/2013 3:06:42 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Truth Is Out There. Just don't let anyone know that you're looking for it.)
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To: Steely Tom
One expected climate impact in the U.S. It is expected to rain tomorrow too, but then it might not..
6 posted on 12/25/2013 3:08:17 PM PST by JoanneSD
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To: Libloather
The hoax is racist.

And the upcoming ice age is racist....because all the illegals and their spawn will head for the warmer climes of Mexico.

The Sun is scheduled to stop producing sunspots around 2016....setting the stage for at least another 400 year long mini ice age.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sunspot formation is triggered by a magnetic field, which scientists say is steadily declining. They predict that by 2016 there may be no remaining sunspots, and the sun may stay spotless for several decades.

The last time the sunspots disappeared altogether was in the 17th and 18th century, and coincided with a lengthy cool period on the planet known as the Little Ice Age....and lasted 400 years.

Good luck surviving with no electricity and GE modified seeds.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news203746768.html#jCp

7 posted on 12/25/2013 3:08:20 PM PST by spokeshave (OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Oh. Upon a second reading, I realized that this is one of those “What’s In It For Us?” deals.


8 posted on 12/25/2013 3:09:42 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Truth Is Out There. Just don't let anyone know that you're looking for it.)
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To: Libloather

Fear mongering to get Latinos to vote for Rats who will gladly take over more control of their money and lives.


9 posted on 12/25/2013 3:13:06 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (From time to time the.tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
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To: Sacajaweau

My son’s baseball teamate’s dad got sick from washing his mouth out with water in Mexico and he was sick for months before he died.


10 posted on 12/25/2013 3:14:42 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (From time to time the.tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
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To: Libloather

Are they going to battle climate change and carbon pollution here, are they going to do it at home so they can go back to their paradise?

11 posted on 12/25/2013 3:15:26 PM PST by Zakeet (If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialists - Friedrich Hayek)
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To: Libloather

Globull warming causes asthma?


12 posted on 12/25/2013 3:15:37 PM PST by funfan
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To: FlingWingFlyer

When they find out that their electric bills will ‘necessarily skyrocket’, they might be inclined to not support the hoax. But knowing the Rats, they’ll have a subsidy for the “poor”.


13 posted on 12/25/2013 3:22:41 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (From time to time the.tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
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To: Zakeet

They plan on doing it by destroying the ability of the US to produce power. That’ll really clean it up in China and Mexico City.


14 posted on 12/25/2013 3:23:52 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (From time to time the.tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
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To: Libloather

Battle it in your own country.


15 posted on 12/25/2013 3:26:06 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Libloather
The vast majority of our Latino communities support government action to limit carbon pollution and “more energy from clean sources,” so when it comes to creating strong rules, EPA has Latino support.

This lady knows what the vast majority of the latino community supports? That is a lie.

A small number of university professors who think they speak for the community is more like it.

16 posted on 12/25/2013 3:28:59 PM PST by oldbrowser (Obamacare is a microcosm of his presidency, and the entire marxist fantasy.)
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To: Libloather

” Latino 18-year-olds who are disproportionately affected by carbon pollution”

Who knew that carbon pollution was racist against 18 year old Latinos? And all these years I thought carbon pollution was an equal opportunity polluter.


17 posted on 12/25/2013 3:36:35 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: Blood of Tyrants

That’s probably exactly what will happen.


18 posted on 12/25/2013 3:39:36 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Truth Is Out There. Just don't let anyone know that you're looking for it.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

But none for the middle class. Obama wants to destroy it.


19 posted on 12/25/2013 3:44:31 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (From time to time the.tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
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To: spokeshave
Check out this recently published paper: The irregulaties of the sunspot cycle and their theoretical modelling. (PDF link). It appears the "average" period between sunspot minima with associated ice ages is about 407 years. We seem to be right on schedule. No taxation or jawboning from leftist politicians is going to change the periodic nature of those physical cycles.
20 posted on 12/25/2013 3:46:34 PM PST by Myrddin
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