Posted on 08/24/2015 9:54:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The environmental justice and Black Lives Matter movements are complementary. We can’t afford to choose between the two.
Those of us from low-income communities of color are on the frontlines of the climate crisis. US cities and towns that are predominantly made up of people of color are also home to a disproportionate share of the environmental burdens that are fueling the climate crisis and shortening our lives. One has only to recall the gut-wrenching images of Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath to confirm this.
At a time when police abuse is more visible than ever thanks to technology, and our communities continue to get hit time and time again by climate catastrophe, we can’t afford to choose between a Black Lives Matter protest and a climate justice forum, because our survival depends on both of them.
As a young woman, I started organizing against racial violence and police misconduct. For the last 20 years, I have been struggling for environmental and climate justice. As descendants of slavery and colonization, our communities have lived and continue to live at the intersection of all these challenges. Both have a long history rooted in the extraction and abuse of our labor and later the extraction and abuse of our resources. Both involve people who are the descendants of historical trauma and are now faced with the catastrophe of a changing climate....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Obviously a Masters Degree in African American Studies and Post Colonial Gimedat.
World ends tomorrow.
Women and minorities hardest hit....
What the hell is “Climate Justice”??
What the hell is “Climate Justice”??Another excuse to raise taxes.
An SDS radical once wrote, “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” In other words, the cause of a political action – whether civil rights or women’s rights – is never the real cause; women, blacks and other “victims” are only instruments in the larger cause, which is power.
http://genius.com/David-horowitz-a-modern-machiavelli-2-lyrics
For years, I looked for the Grand Unified Theory of the Left. I think that's it.
They’re still trying to foment the “people’s revolution”.
Worked so well under Stalin, Castro, Pol Pot, etc.
Katrina was a racist hurricane that hit New Orleans because it was aiming at black people?
True, but ultimately it doesn’t matter if it works or not. It matters that they control it.
WTF is “Climate Justice”? If there’s one thing that’s certain, the weather doesn’t discriminate.
This winter, we'll trade weather with NOLA.
How's that?
Musta been a cracka in the woodpile somewhere...
Elizabeth Lumpyaire. She evidently doesn’t believe in supporting environmental justice by reducing her own personal overconsumption.
No way she is black!
Forcibly remove all black people from the coasts, then?
>>Do they REALLY believe all this nonsense
I was just reading that hyperbole-filled rant and thought the same thing. How can anyone be that stupid, but then I realized that the answer is grocery stores. The author of this has probably never had to do real work to be able to eat in her life. So she thinks that her purpose is “social justice” and Other People can do the things necessary for her to live her comfortable life.
Hmmmm....living in a riverine swamp near a warm ocean tends to bring about occasional national disasters.
Mental illness ain’t pretty.
Wow, that was a torturous stretch
C-
Climate Justice? Really? Mother Nature is a cold-hearted b*tch — you’ll get no “justice” from her.
Amazing that these Gaia-worshipping atheists can’t get that fundamentals right.
Here’s your answer, Vet.
#factsdontmatter
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