Posted on 04/05/2022 6:49:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK (AP) — A group of financial donors committed to racial equity plans to announce Tuesday that it has secured at least $100 million annually to benefit minority groups that are disproportionately harmed by extreme weather events.
The group, the Donors of Color Network, will also announce that 10 of the nation’s top 40 donors to environment causes have now signed on to at least a portion of a pledge the network established last year. The Climate Funders Justice Pledge commits the donors to make their climate-related grants transparent and to direct at least 30% of their donations to groups that have Black, Indigenous or other people of color as their leaders.
“That’s a great start,” said Isabelle Leighton, the network’s interim executive director. “But there’s still a lot of work to do.”
Twelve national environmental grant makers awarded $1.34 billion to organizations in the Gulf and Midwest regions in 2016 and 2017, according to a 2020 study by The New School’s Tishman Environment and Design Center. But only about 1% of it — roughly $18 million — was awarded to groups that are dedicated to environmental justice.
In its 2020 “State of the Air” report, the American Lung Association found that people of color were 1.5 times more likely to live in an area with poor air quality than white people were.
For this reason, environmental justice groups have pursued solutions with racial equity in mind. If minority communities receive help in achieving long-term solutions to perennial problems like flooding or erosion, for example, the projects can benefit both the environment and the community.
Leighton said donors have sometimes avoided explaining they are underfunding minority groups that are disproportionately hurt by extreme weather.
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How can a hoax affect minorities disproportionately?
You have to love when leftists shake down leftists.
“people of color were 1.5 times more likely to live in an area with poor air quality”
It’s odd how the bad air migrates 50 feet next door to the black family.
“A group of financial donors committed to racial equity plans to announce Tuesday that it has secured at least $100 million annually to benefit minority groups that are disproportionately harmed by extreme weather events.”
I didn’t realize tornados look around for black communities before deciding when to strike.
Well, apparently these brain trusts have convinced folks that 98 degrees is hotter for some folks than others. What feels like 98 to some disproportionate minority only feels like 75 to the un-disproportionate majority. The weather controllers obiously making the weather worse for them folks. Past the point of thinking this fidiocy will come to a screeching halt. And we will be worse off for it. CLIMAGEDDON! WARMUNIST AGENDA!
Are normal people now considered a minority group?
Hey, it’s their money. More power to them. These liberals have a long road ahead of them to make-up for their history of racism.
Another money pot to control corrupt ministers.
As BB King once intoned: "I gave you a ten-dollah dinnah, and you said, 'Thanks for the snack'."
Payoffs to fatcat Beuarocrats
I want a program to benefit old white guys on climate change.
Liberalism truly is a diseased mind.
Leighton said donors have sometimes avoided explaining they are underfunding minority groups that are disproportionately hurt by extreme weather.
A bunch of happy grifting racists.
If 3% of the money actually gets used for the stated purposes I would shocked.
Lots of white liberal bigots are going to get travel compensation to worthless meetings in vacation areas.
I am part Tsalagi (Cherokee) so if The Climate Funders Justice Pledge would send me $10,000 per month, I promise to breathe only half as much as I do now, therefor saving oxygen and eliminating half the Carbon Dioxide I emit...
I really do promise...Cross my heart...
Is it the same rain that falls on a poor man’s room?
Is it the same rain that falls on a rich man’s tomb?
Is it the same rain that falls on me?
Somehow, climate has become a racial i$$ue.
Commie slush fund and “walkin’ around” money for black political shysters.
Yeah but there was a factory built near a minority neighborhood, or somewhere, some time, so “climate change” is WAISIST!
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