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Environmentalist: Ferguson Happened Because of Climate Change
National Review ^ | September 17, 2014 | Katherine Timpf

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: enviromentalism; ferguson
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To: Dallas59

I am so there!!


61 posted on 09/17/2014 5:00:57 PM PDT by Gator113 ( Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Mike Lee speak for me, most everyone else is just noise.)
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To: walford

Reasonable people can certainly disagree on that point.

But WIBNI critical thinking skills were more evenly distributed among the populace...


62 posted on 09/17/2014 5:05:39 PM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: walford

Makes as much sense as racism.


63 posted on 09/17/2014 5:12:25 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: Zeppo

“WIBNI critical thinking skills were more evenly distributed among the populace...”


Which is why the Left has been working hard [through the public schools, media and entertainment industries, which they dominate] to make people ignorant and unable to think for themselves.

Hence we have a President re-elected on a tanking economy and an international environment in which our enemies are increasingly strong and vicious.


64 posted on 09/17/2014 5:42:31 PM PDT by walford (https://www.facebook.com/wralford [feel free to friend me] @wralford on Twitter)
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To: 12chachacha
Hey, when it’s hot people are hateful.

It can't be anymore than a hunn'erd and fourteen!

65 posted on 09/17/2014 6:01:50 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Godzilla

OMGGG I totally agree with you Godzilla ROFL LMAO


66 posted on 09/17/2014 6:17:24 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Eddie01

Actually for Supernatural fans on the forum I think of Dean and Sam Winchester Impala car

Burn notice fans may differ with MIchael Western charger car


67 posted on 09/17/2014 6:18:28 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: walford

I stubbed my toe...must be climate change.


68 posted on 09/17/2014 6:59:42 PM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: PATRIOT1876

“They now believe that Climate Change is caused by unicorns driving 1969 Chargers and listening to Shirley Bassey on 8 tracks.”

Good point. Makes sense.


69 posted on 09/17/2014 7:39:41 PM PDT by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: walford

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf28RPVS4qg

Chris Rock PSA
Dont’ think it’s coordinated?


70 posted on 09/17/2014 7:58:14 PM PDT by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: walford

“Environmentalist: Ferguson Happened Because of Climate Change”

Is there ANYTHING that global warming CAN’T do?


71 posted on 09/17/2014 8:37:22 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman

Angels, dodgers World Series?


72 posted on 09/17/2014 8:38:40 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: Eddie01

Love Zappa
BUT
Groupthink PSA rears ugly head again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_McaUor0G0


73 posted on 09/17/2014 9:25:46 PM PDT by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: catnipman

Well, it might be George W. Bush’s fault.


74 posted on 09/18/2014 5:53:46 AM PDT by walford (https://www.facebook.com/wralford [feel free to friend me] @wralford on Twitter)
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To: walford

*The employment office was untouched.*

Sounds like superstition, like not wanting to walk through a graveyard at night...


75 posted on 09/18/2014 7:57:04 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: walford

Whatta dumbazz. LOL


76 posted on 09/18/2014 7:58:13 AM PDT by dforest
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