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I agree with the headline from the always very far left Common Dreams. Just not the reasoning

Climate Change Is a Poor People’s Issue

If you’ve read anything about climate change over the past year, you’ve probably heard about the IPCC report that gives a 12-year deadline for limiting climate change catastrophe. But for many parts of the world, climate change already is a catastrophe.

Recently in Bihar, one of the poorest states in India, more than 40 people were killedby a severe heat wave in just one day. A study by UNICEF suggests that “in the next decade, 175 million children will be hit by climate-related disasters in South Asia and Africa alone.” Closer to home, Miami’s steady sinking is depleting useable drinking water at an alarming rate.

The truth is, vulnerable communities have been dealing with the effects of climate change and environmental pollution for decades now.

The 85-mile stretch between Baton Rouge and New Orleans — aptly nicknamed Cancer Alley — is a stark example. Thanks to petrochemical pollution there, Louisiana at one point suffered the second-highest death rate from cancer in the United States, with some localities near chemical plants getting cancer from air pollution at 700 times the national average.

This is no accident: Corporations deliberately target places like Cancer Alley because they’re home to socially and economically disadvantaged people whom the corporations assume can’t fight back.

Notice that they’ve mixed actual environmental issues with the notion that the minor increase in global temperatures since 1850 is mostly/solely caused by Mankind

While this study only tells part of the story, it does a lot to explain why poor communities face the worst consequences of climate change and pollution. These inequities cut across racial lines: As Hochschild’s study shows, “least resistant personalities” include small town, working-class white communities in the South and Midwest, as well as poor black people in places like Cancer Alley.

The problem isn’t just corporations, but government at all levels.

See, the thing is, ‘climate change’ is a poor people’s issue. And a middle class issue. Because the powerful, and usually rich, people in and out of government are the ones who are pushing all the restrictive, liberty and choice reducing policies along with all the taxes and fees that will skyrocket the cost of living. These same Elitists are then promising to “refund” a portion of the taxes and fees back to the same low and middle class folks, making them even more dependent on the same government that jacked up their cost of living.

And, these same schmucks harm the real environmental movement by mixing actual real world issues with this ginned up ‘climate change’ scam, which makes it harder to address the real underlying environmental issues.