Posted on 05/11/2017 7:07:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
African-American, Caribbean-American and Hispanic communities are typically located miles from South Florida beaches where climate change is most visible — but people who live in those areas are profoundly vulnerable to the effects, political leaders and climate science experts said Wednesday.
And, panelists at a Fort Lauderdale conference said, there’s a growing awareness in minority communities of the implications of climate change.
The environmental movement was long seen as the province of “white tree huggers,” said Caroline Lewis, director of the CLEO Institute.
But that is changing, said Lewis, who is Caribbean-American. “Here in southeast Florida, it is almost flipping,” she said. “It’s bubbling up tremendously.”
Still, she said, it’s not always easy to convince people to pay attention to climate change.
“When people are worrying about paying their bills, the last thing they want to hear about is sea level rise,” she said. “You have to care because every vulnerability you now face is going to be increased exponentially by climate change.”
Angela Rye, the moderator, said people can’t let the headlines of the day overwhelm important issues like climate. “We have to walk and chew gum at the same time. We have to be able to have conversations about our environment, about climate change, about clean drinking water – and conversations about the Trump administration at the same time,” she said.
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What exactly is a Caribbean-American? Caribbean comprises a lot of countries just like Africa. Do these people not know where they were born?
Yes, and New Orleans and every other major urban area containing these “communities”... the weather is the least of their innumerable problems.
For those that believe in Global Warming as a religion they need to find new converts to their religion and they need to converts to pressure legislators to pass laws and override vetoes so that Global Warming initiatives may go forward.
It is obvious that they are looking for a special interest group that they can take political advantage of. So the Democratic party with its historic people of color base becomes the obvious target.
This is all about trying to find a political base to support out of favor ideas that some believe with religious fervor.
The level of something is rising in southern Florida all right, and it isn’t the ocean.
At this rate, the climate change/global warming scam artists should be drowning in their own bullshit by roughly the middle of 2018.
The weather singles people out by race, chases down and attacks them?
To all that don’t know, Miami, Miami Beach ,Ft. Lauderdale Beach were originally SWAMPS!
I personally know that west of SR7/441 in the 1950s was still locally considered Everglades. Where the Dolphins play(?), I used to hunt and fish. 1957 waterskied in canal(same area)to the end at what is now Flamingo Road. Great place to shoot Garfish!
There is a very narrow Hardpan(coral/limestone ridge running South to North from the Keys to above Jupiter that is the lynch pin of the”South Florida” area. East was/is barrier islands, West is sand prairie or swamp, that are now communities!
http://untappedcities.com/2013/04/25/7-things-you-didnt-know-about-miami/
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A long but good read”
http://141.232.10.32/docs/river_interest/031512_river_interests_2012_chap_01.pdf
Well, just paint ‘em white so they’ll reflect the heat better.
I live in north central Florida and I'm whiter than the sand on the beach in the Florida panhandle.
Does this mean if I just drive the little over an hour to either coastline, I can see the impact of climate change that I can't see in the central part of the peninsula? Or do I have to be black or hispanic to see this climate change?
What does being white, black or hispanic have to do with the "visibility" of climate change, if there were such a beast?
I'm confused.
Yes, in the sense that it's a great scam than can be milked for free goodies. Welcome to the party!
I can’t believe someone wanted to waste ink printing this load of tripe. It’s like they placed cards with all the hot buzzwords-—”black”, “Hispanic”, “climate change”, etc. on a table before them and then proceeded to write a “news” story using all those terms.
OMG-is the local street corner drug bazaar going to be underwater?
I've never been to Florida. Is that where I can find all of those white trees?
Just how does climate change know how to bypass white, middle aged married men with Christian/ Judeo beliefs?
Experts my ass.
Surely transgengerds are hardest hit.
However, they do have a major CO2 increase problem caused by all the burning gunpowder and decaying bodies.
You ask: “Oh well, what else can those with little intelligence do to earn a living?”
Many have found employment as paid social justice activists.
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