Posted on 03/30/2024 6:00:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK -- The climate clock in Union Square is a constant reminder to New Yorkers of climate change, counting down the critical time window to reach zero emissions, but the existential nature of the installation leaves some feeling more discouraged than motivated.
But there are some positive changemakers in the fight against climate change in our city.
Johanna Lawton is a project manager at Rebuild by Design, a nonprofit organization that works to plan for the future with communities that are disproportionately affected by climate racism, among other things.
This increased variability and extremes that we're having from climate change are disproportionately going to impact low-income communities and predominantly Black and Brown communities," said Lawton. "I always say that there's no such thing as a natural disaster. There is a natural hazard, combined with the underlying or preexisting conditions that were defined by decisions made, whether it be policies or urban planning that preexisted the event and created disproportionate inequities already in a community. And so when a climate shock or stressor occurs, we inevitably end up seeing these inequities magnified."
Jenille Scott is the climate director at Align NYC, a community organization working toward making the state more sustainable.
"When you're talking about climate change, you have to look at the history in terms of, when we talk about institutional racism. Many of the communities are Black, Brown, low-income people. So you might hear me say 'BIPOC,' sometimes these are communities that were zoned as industrial areas and they didn't get the investment. They didn't get, like, green, any sort of green spaces, anything like that. And so a lot of those polluting facilities are located in these communities where our schools are," said Scott.
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Financial Fraud, through and through.
Climate Racism? WTF are they smokin?
not a bad scam if you can get a part of it.
Jenille Scott is the climate director is a raving lunatic
They are making tremendou$ progre$$ $tudying the p$eudo climate change fairy tale.
What is their definition of climate change because theirs has nothing to do with climate and the count down timer is AOC’s ,LOL
This is such total nonsense.
Trudeau is spending $8.4 million on the same thing and I bet the money comes with the answer Trudeau wants attached to the check ,LOL
Journalists “studying”? By all appearances, these clowns became journalists precisely because studying was a talent that they couldn’t learn.
One does not need science to come to the conclusion that the climate change bull is bull...just ask which country is the biggest contributor to CO2, which country is building tens of coal plants each year, and which country is exempt from all the silly-assed “solutions” to climate change. And that country just happens to the prime source of all the unworkable “sustainable power” solutions. One answer exists, of course. Ergo, bull****.
Wymen, chillerens, and minorities affected the hardest.
My wife says, “Climate Change makes the salt in the shaker on the dining room table clump more...”
I read somewhere than the Climate Crisis makes chickens molt eight days earlier in the spring! [Horrors!]
Climate change is just another big money scam from the worldwide left. When they start coining words such as “climate racism” then it’s all about money and power more so than science!
Noted scientists debunk all this garbage on:
Climate The Movie (The Cold Truth)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31851190/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
It’s excellent. Scientists note temperature gauges were once on the outskirts of cities, but as cities grew they now are positioned within the urban core and subject to the heat island effect. Relocate those temp gauges and we find virtually zero warming.
Also shown is a good demo of the sun’s role in the creation of clouds, which greatly affects temperatures.
And..our now dangerously low level of CO2 as it pertains to plant (food) growth.
Free movie is out exposing the climate change/global warming scam.
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/03/21/spread-the-word-climate-the-movie-out-today-online-for-free-and-its-terrific-n3785115
Wasn’t NYC supposed to be underwater by now?
There could be something to it. I predict it will get warmer over the next few months.
Until these organization go after China, Russia, India, Middle East, Southeast Asian countries I will not honor their positions. I will assume them to be political arms of the demoncrat party.
Trying to develop fancy lies that could impress low information voters.
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