Alex Harris
Posted on 08/14/2018 7:02:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change is a massive, complex, globe-spanning issue that affects every facet of our lives. And like most problems at its scale, it’s bound to affect the poor and people of color most significantly.
How can we address that in South Florida? This week, the issues are the environment and climate change, vital topics for residents who live at “ground zero” for sea-rise threats.
The most at-risk population are poor people. They have the least amount of resources to escape the effects of climate change, by buying products or services to make weathering the changes easier. There is also increasing concern about the concept of “climate gentrification” - low-income residents being pushed out of higher elevation zones in South Florida. But in a region booming with redevelopment and market demand that have rapidly turned once struggling neighborhoods into trendy areas, many factors could be at work, including climate concerns.
As flood insurance premiums rise and property values begin to be affected by sea rise, experts worry there will be less affordable neighborhoods for the region’s working class.
That will be a crisis “way before sea level rise hits,” said Florida International University Professor Hugh Gladwin, who studies climate gentrification in the area. “It’s like we’re losing what we need to keep going, which is a workforce that can stay here.”
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
It seems to me that Rush Limbaugh lives at “ground zero” for sea-rise threats. (He doesn't seem particularly concerned.)
ML/NJ
Blame white people?
Poor Whites, apparently, can just die.
Alex Harris
I think they actually must have meant "Primate Change" but spellcheck must have kicked in.
And certain of the primates are indeed experiencing difficulties at this time.
Apparently some don't even know enough to come in out of the rising waters.
Blame Whites, get them to blame themselves, and forcibly extract all of their money and then redistribute it along racial lines.
I also imagine that they aren’t talking the color red.
And god forbid anyone question the lifestyle and planet-destroying habits of the yellow.
Simple.
Racism.
It’s all they know anyway.
Whites naturally have larger carbon footprints than minorities.
Strangely enough, that same observation is made many times in the book linked below.... in 1991. Twenty-Seven Years Ago!
2018 American dysfunctional Society?
Parliament of Whores by P.J. O'rourke (1991) and Andrew Ferguson, 2003, Updated reprint Grove Press
The functional insane born that year, or previous years would profit immensely from reading it; The snowflakes, the Justice warriors, the racist and poverty pimps, the professional "homeless" and unemployed parasites, and of course, the colossal army of volunteer, elected and appointed bureaucrat criminal industry which enable them."
Southside Chicago needs one of those.
Oh that is an easy question....just give them more of someone else’s money....duhhh...
Yes, let’s see you explain to them how ‘climate change’ is the most important issue in their lives...
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