Posted on 09/17/2014 2:47:45 PM PDT by walford
According to a top environmentalist organizer, climate change is responsible for this summer’s violence in Ferguson, Missouri.
“To me, the connection between militarized state violence, racism, and climate change was common-sense and intuitive,” 350.org Strategic Partnership Coordinator Deirdre Smith wrote.
“Oppression and extreme weather combine to ‘incite’ militarized violence,” she continued. Weeks of rioting followed the killing August 9 of 18-year-old Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Observers around the nation criticized the police for a heavy-handed response to protests in the town, but while the rioting received international attention, it did not result in any loss of life.
Smith explained that not only do poor minority communities have fewer resources to deal with the impacts of climate change, but that “people of color also disproportionately live in climate-vulnerable areas,” which makes climate change a race issue.
Her argument is rooted in the doctrine of “environmental justice,” sometimes called “environmental racism,” which is recognized by the Environmental Protection Agency.
The EPA defines environmental justice as the “fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies,” according to its website.
The EPA recognizes environmental justice as a civil rights issue under Title VI, which means that power plants or excessive car exhaust can be considered civil rights violations — if they occur in poor and minority neighborhoods, that is.
350 is just one of many environmentalist groups that will participate in the People’s Climate March in New York City on Sunday, which aims to strengthen these kinds of policies.
According to the National Weather Service, the St. Louis area was not notably warmer this summer than it has ever been. At 80.3 degrees Fahrenheit, this August’s average temperature in the Gateway to the West was only the seventh-warmest of the last 20 years, substantially cooler than the two-decade high of 83.9 degrees in August 1995.
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I’m an 82 year old woman and your post is PERFECT. A very accurate depiction of me when I read this article.
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Hey, when it’s hot people are hateful. Just look at all of those hateful people in Africa. When it is cold people are racist, just look at all of those racist cracker Canucks in Canada (The CCC, not the KKK) if you don’t believe me.
Well that is good because it is supposed to be a bitterly cold winter, so the whole glowbull warming hoax won’t be bothering them! LOL
http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/ferguson-mo/63135/august-weather/2141541
Ferguson was seven degrees cooler than average on the day of the shooting. In the week following the shooting, the actual Ferguson weather was cooler than the historical average by 4, 1, 6, 6, 2, 1, and 7 degrees. Pleasant weather causes violence?
There are unbelievably stupid people all around us.
Wonder why it was removed?
Huh?
1. Brown wouldn't have robbed the store?
2. He would have walked on the sidewalk and not attracted Officer Wilson's attention?
3. Officer Wilson would have been too cold to roll down his window to tell Brown to get off the road.
4. Brown would have gone to the sidewalk rather than attacking Wilson?
5. Brown would have impotently hit the rolled up police car window (remember, it's cold) rather than being able to reach into the car and punch Wilson or grab his gun?
6. Brown would have slipped on the icy road and been unable to charge Wilson? 7. Wilson would have been shivering so much that he would have missed Brown?
8. Brown's heavy summer coat would have stopped the bullet?
9. The blood flowing out of Brown's wound would have frozen, preventing him from bleeding out?
10. Crowds would have stayed home rather than risk frostbite rioting?
11. Space heaters would have been stolen rather than big screen TVs?
Anything else?
“Wonder why it was removed?”
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I’ll be darned-—it certainly wasn’t offensive.
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// Isn’t it racist to say that places with higher temperature have a higher incidence of violence? //
Oops.
Someone should just walk up and punch lights out the next time they hear one of these imbeciles open their trap. Enough is enough.
Oh for the love of Gore!
We would have been beaten with a swich and a belt if we had acted like the looters in Ferguson, or like the gentle giant, beating the cop’s face in. Thank goodness! My parents didn’t put up with behavior like that, and it was HOT in the summer and COLD in the winter in Sapulpa Ok and we didn’t have Central heat or AC. We had a floor furnace under the house that barely heated the dining room, the heat didn’t make it upstairs to the bedrooms. There was no heat up there. Winters were brutally cold. Summers were in the 100s. I didn’t even have a fan in my room. It was so hot that I used to try to go to sleep with my head in the window, on the window sill. Glowbull warming my ass. It is called seasons and you deal with it and you don’t go and loot, protest, riot because it is hot, or cold. Sheesh.
EPA NEEDS TO GO!
Thanks.
That one doesn’t look like me,though. :-)
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Lol...
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