Posted on 03/22/2021 2:31:19 PM PDT by Stravinsky
The climate movement is ascendant, and it has become common to see climate change as a social justice issue. Climate change and its effects—pandemics, pollution, natural disasters—are not universally or uniformly felt: the people and communities suffering most are disproportionately Black, Indigenous and people of color. It is no surprise then that U.S. surveys show that these are the communities most concerned about climate change.
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Today, a year into the pandemic, after the murder of George Floyd and the protests that followed, and the attack on the U.S. Capitol, I am deeply concerned about the racial implications of climate anxiety. If people of color are more concerned about climate change than white people, why is the interest in climate anxiety so white? Is climate anxiety a form of white fragility or even racial anxiety? Put another way, is climate anxiety just code for white people wishing to hold onto their way of life or get “back to normal,” to the comforts of their privilege?
The white response to climate change is literally suffocating to people of color. Climate anxiety can operate like white fragility, sucking up all the oxygen in the room and devoting resources toward appeasing the dominant group. As climate refugees are framed as a climate security threat, will the climate-anxious recognize their role in displacing people from around the globe? Will they be able to see their own fates tied to the fates of the dispossessed? Or will they hoard resources, limit the rights of the most affected and seek to save only their own, deluded that this xenophobic strategy will save them? How can we make sure that climate anxiety is harnessed for climate justice?
(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...
Climate change is now racist....HAHAHHAHAHA!
I suspect I stopped buying and reading a more than a couple of decades ago.
Liberal. Oh. And define “ white “. Ok. ?
Only lilly-white leftists with absolutely nothing to do and too much time on their hands, think this is real. The rest of us just want to live our lives.
Their magazine was a joke many years ago, it’s only gotten worse.
Earth first! (We'll strip mine the rest of the planets later ...)
As usual, sad to see SA reduced to gibbering stupidities.
This writer is right for all the wrong reasons. Climate change concern is a luxury of wealthy Western society. India, the Chicoms don’t care a rats ass about it. The rest of the world sees it as a way to scam us out of lots of money.
Climate anxiety was the first step in creating white guilt. Once white guilt was in place, exercising control over an entire population became easier. Calling someone a climate denier is equivalent to calling them a racist.
There you go.😏
DOUGLAS MURRAY: Terrifying our children with doom mongering propaganda on climate change is nothing less than abuse
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7902895/DOUGLAS-MURRAY-Terrifying-children-propaganda-climate-change-abuse.html
No wonder she/it is angry. When God passed out breasts, she must have been in the Male/Female/It room.
“The murder of George Floyd,” “Scientific American” states? Tis is what to expect from a Commie rag previously owned by the Commie Piels family. This rag is trash masquerading as a scientific periodical.
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