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.
Yowsa !!!
Good job.
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These brainless knuckleheads rear their empty heads again?
I thought they slinked away when the PSA with the teacher blowing up kids because they didn't fall in line with the Soviet style enviothug ways of forcing students to believe that black is white and white is black and green is more important than fact.
350.org is the less smelly version of the occupiers.
“Mom, shut the basement door. I've finally made it to Grand Dragon of the 350.org and were organizing a protest against the suckers that work for a living and have to drive cars! How i HATE the automobile. I'm sure glad I don't have one.
Hey, make me a sandwich! I got my prostate exam coming up.
And no meat, Ma. You know I'm a vegan.”
The 350.org people should do something to contribute to society instead of trying to destroy it. Give them some shovels and make them work in a coal mine for a couple years.
“Common sense and intuitive.”
How much LSD do you have to have in your system before this nonsense seems like it is anywhere close to reality?
The Street Rats in Ferguson want their neighborhood stores rebuilt or “all hell will break loose”......Why waste the time building again, when “global warming” reaches its peak, the buildings will burn down anyway? Everyone know that (SARC)
ha ha ha ha GOOD ONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
99% of all Leprechaun scientists have debunked the ‘79 Charger theory.
They now believe that Climate Change is caused by unicorns driving 1969 Chargers and listening to Shirley Bassey on 8 tracks.
Al Gore has already made $50 million on the ‘69 Charger/unicorn/disruptification theory with his unicorn horn credit scheme.
Heavy-handed = trying to prevent looting and arson. You gotta love the Orwellian turn of phrase.
Don’t forget that no work boots were stolen in the Ferguson Payless shoe store.
The employment office was untouched.
The left just keeps chanting the same bull c$ap over and over and the low fo’s eat it up.
I put recyclables in the trash two months ago...I’m pretty sure that I’m responsible for Brown’s death (and the price of tuna fish in Ecuador).
I think that I can say, without fear of contradiction, that 350.org Strategic Partnership Coordinator Deirdre Smith is a blithering idiot.
I’m just about at that point, my friend. Just about.
“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.”
Oh, this is delicious. Using that ape’s logic, Hitler was a product of global warming. HaHaHaHaHa!!!!!
“Oh, this is delicious. Using that ape’s logic, Hitler was a product of global warming. HaHaHaHaHa!!!!!”
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The heat drove Pol Pot nuts also.
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I don’t think people like her are stupid, they have been propagandized to the point wherein they don’t have any common sense.
Having a big engine does you no good if your transmission is blown.
Whatever she’s drinking, I want some!
I meant the environmentalist, of course.
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