If you said “the poor and minorities”, you’d be right. Harry Alford, the president and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, provides the details
(IBD) The Obama administration, the Environmental Protection Agency and environmental activists frequently claim that climate change will disproportionately affect poor and minority communities.
This, they argue, justifies unprecedented environmental regulations like the EPA’s soon-to-be-finalized “Clean Power Plan” to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030.
But what effect will the regulation itself have on minority communities? A new study commissioned by my organization, the National Black Chamber of Commerce, answers this question.
The Clean Power Plan will lead to lost jobs, lower incomes and higher poverty rates for the 128 million blacks and Hispanics living in America. This should serve as a warning to federal and state lawmakers as they prepare for this sweeping regulation to go into effect in the coming months.
The cost of energy will skyrocket, which will effect the poor the most, and particularly minorities.
The study estimates that this single regulation will cause cumulative job losses for blacks and Hispanics of roughly 7 million and 12 million, respectively, over the next 20 years. Over the same time period, black families can expect their annual incomes to fall by $455, while Hispanics will take home $515 less per year.
This regulation will also impose higher costs of living, which again hit minority families the hardest. Today, blacks spend 10% more of their income on housing, 20% more on food, 40% more on clothing and 50% more on utilities than do white families.
Similar disparities exist for Hispanics: 5% more on housing, 10% more on utilities, 40% more on clothing and fully 90% more on food.
Why do Warmists, who are mostly middle and upper income White leftists, hate poor minorities? Let’s be clear, I do not mean that in any sarcastic nor facetious manner. Liberalism hurts minorities, especially Blacks. We see what happens to lower income Blacks in Democrat urban areas. We see how leftist policies tend to keep Blacks poor and downtrodden, beholden to The Government (really, the Democratic party). We see what the destruction of the family, immorality, over-sexualization, abortion on demand, and so many other Leftist policies have done to Blacks, and other minorities. The Cult Of Climastrology is going to hurt them even more.
The study estimates that the regulation will increase black and Hispanic poverty by 23% and 26%, respectively.
Anyone think Warmists really care? A rhetorical question, obviously.
