Latino activism leads in grassroot efforts on climate change

The Associated Press ^ | June 12, 2022 | By ANITA SNOW (D-AP)

[Oldeconomybuyer]

PHOENIX (AP) — … After experiencing global warming’s firsthand effects, U.S. Latinos are leading the way in activism around climate change, often drawing on traditions from their ancestral homelands.

“There has been a real national uprising in Latino activism in environmentalism in recent years,” said Juan Roberto Madrid, an environmental science and public health specialist based in Colorado for the national nonprofit GreenLatinos. “Climate change may be impacting everyone, but it is impacting Latinos more.”

U.S. Latinos often live in ignored, lower income neighborhoods that are degrees hotter than nearby areas because they have a higher population density and limited tree canopy. Hispanics are also disproportionately affected by chronic health conditions aggravated by extreme heat, like diabetes and heart and kidney disease.

Latino activists are now sounding the alarm about the risks of global warming for their neighborhoods and the world.

Recent research shows most Latinos in the U.S. consider climate change an important concern.

A Pew Research Center study released last fall showed about seven in 10 Latinos say climate change affects their communities at least some, while only 54% of non-Latinos said it affects their neighborhoods. The self-administered web survey of 13,749 respondents had a margin of error of plus or minus 1.4 percentage points.

Latino and other communities of color are disproportionately affected by climate change, such as more frequent, intense and longer heat waves in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Palm Springs and other arid western communities.

A study by researchers from the University of California, Davis and the American University of Beirut concluded last year that poor and Latino neighborhoods in 20 metro regions around the Southwest endure temperatures several degrees higher on the hottest days, creating greater risks for heat-related illness.

[Drew68]

These people really live in an insulated bubble of fantasy. Latinos don’t care about climate change. Latinos care about runaway inflation and skyrocketing gas prices, just like the rest of the country.

[FreeperCell]

All news organizations are propaganda organizations.

[Dr. Sivana]

U.S. Latinos often live in ignored, lower income neighborhoods that are degrees hotter than nearby areas because they have a higher population density and limited tree canopy.

Population density here is a LOT less than in similarly sized northern cities like Philadelphia.

There are also plenty of upscale HOAs that have strict controls over which trees you can plant, if any.

What is an "ignored" neighborhood? Maybe one where the roads aren't paved as much? There is no neighborhood I know of in Phoenix where the trash isn't picked up, police don't come when called, and fire departments don't respond to fires.

Outside of those things, I would like my neighborhood to be "ignored".

Summers are no hotter here than when I was a teenager, 40+ years ago. In those days I would watched the old school cable channels that listed temperatures on a graphic crawl, and Phoenix even then would hit 118 degrees in July and August. It is in the desert, in a valley.

[pierrem15]

My guess is about 0.01% of actual Latinos give a rat’s patooty about climate change, while 100% of “Latinx” do.

[aquila48]

What a bunch of crap!

99% of latnos couldn’t give a rats ass about the fraud known as “climate change”, or “climate emergency”, or “WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!”

What this propaganda piece is talking about is a few ignorant kids that they managed to indoctrinate at our public re-education camps.

[tomkat]

I’d confidently bet that this ~100% fiction.

[Deaf Smith]

Left out the last bullet point:

Higher population density = more people per household

Sometimes that means one family per room, including living room.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Appears the AP is going big time to help eliminate the fertilizer shortage in the US with their climate change conspiracy theory articles.

[SoConPubbie]

It’s the Ass Press so you know they are lying!

[AZJeep]

It basically reflects the views of ultraliberal congressman Ruben Gallego. 100% voted with Biden.
Apparently all Latinos run away from central America because climate. It is actually cooler in Guatemala than in Phoenix!

[Flavious_Maximus]

This is what’s called astro-turfing. A wealthy leftist (Soros) gives money to a hard-core environMENTAL Marxist, to start an nonprofit called GreenLatinos. They hire a few token “Latinos” to be the face of the nonprofit, and voila, the AP title for the article: Latinos are leading the way in activism around climate change.

Never mind that the vast majority of real Latino’s are not conned by the Climate Change scam. They are just living their lives trying to make ends meet, like most normal Americans.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Before the Lats get all excited about meeting and traveling the world with the Swedish Meatball toddler, they need to get their asses back down to the boarder and clean up that dump they made with their smuggling and illegal border crossings. Their “traditional homeland” garbage is making that joint smell like a La Raza “latino” dump.

[wjcsux]

There’s a legal term for this crap, it’s called fraud.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

A climate/drought reporter named Anita Snow? Hmmm....

[TigersEye]

Sounds like this author is saying Latinos are too dumb to plant trees.
I know for a fact that this is not true. :)

[cgbg]

From “The Wire”:

“The bigger the lie the more they believe...”

;-)

[boomop1]

Believe nothing AP.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

What a staggering load of purely anecdotal crap! Their strategy is to repeat this frequently enough and long enough so that everybody believes it.

[Latinos] experiencing global warming’s firsthand effects

Climate change...is impacting Latinos more [than other people]

[Latinos live in] lower income neighborhoods that are degrees hotter than nearby areas

[Latinos] have a higher population density and limited tree canopy

Hispanics are disproportionately affected by chronic health conditions aggravated by extreme heat, like diabetes and heart and kidney disease.

Latino and other communities of color are disproportionately affected by climate change, such as more frequent, intense and longer heat waves in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Palm Springs and other arid western communities.

It doesn't make any sense because Latinos and Hispanics COME FROM hot parts of the world (Spain, Mexico, Central America, northern South America). They are USED TO hot weather. Have they been in the USA so long they forgot how their ancestors lived in those hot and arid places?

[bigfootbob]

“ PHOENIX (AP) — … After experiencing global warming’s firsthand effects, U.S. Latinos are leading the way in activism around climate change, often drawing on traditions from their ancestral homelands”

Reread the last 8 words from the highlighted paragraph again. The propagandist may have swerved into divulging a truth. I believe they do draw on the “Ancient Chinese Secret”, (dating myself, huh?), when the shit gets too hot or too cold, their DNA tells them it’s time to move.

Who do these fools write this mind numbing content for??? (Rhetorical question)

[bigfootbob]

Just think of all the investment opportunities that go with what you just eloquently mentioned AND the mitigation opportunities elsewhere! Win-Win-Win!