Hey, remember when this was about Science?
Climate change is social justice issue of our time — Will Busse
The national conversation about race has caused many Americans to examine their roles in maintaining systemic inequality. From today’s perspective, it’s easy to judge our nation’s history of slavery and wonder in disbelief how such a dehumanizing system was tolerated by so many for so long.
But the human tendency to minimize the negative impact of our choices on others persists, and future generations may make similar judgments about us today.
Experts have warned us for decades about the threat of climate change, and the evidence is increasingly before our eyes — historic flooding, temperature records broken, unprecedented melting of arctic ice sheets, and the thawing of permafrost that accelerates warming.
We don’t have to live this way. A price on pollution will drastically reduce carbon emissions while spurring innovation for clean energy. Climate change has exacerbated inequality around the globe by disproportionately affecting disadvantaged populations who are more vulnerable to food shortages and damage to infrastructure caused by extreme weather.
Addressing this problem is the social justice issue of our time. Let’s wake up and do our part to build a future that offers more opportunities for all.
So, um, why do so few Warmists want to do anything in their own lives? Why do they seem to Virtue Signal so often, and think they know what’s best for “minorities”? Why do these uber-white leftists think that people who don’t look like them are minorities? They aren’t minorities in Africa, Asia, Latin and South America, right? Why do they think they can speak for them, and down to them in a patronizing manner?
Oh, right, because the membership of the Cult of Climastrology is uber-leftist Caucasian
We need to talk about racism in the climate movement
I was the only non-white activist at a protest against a coal plant in Germany. I was left out of pictures shared on social media by Greenpeace Germany.
This happened less than six months after a similar incident with Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate. The only difference: this time it was done by people inside the climate movement. People I’d normally call colleagues and friends.
When I became active in the climate movement, I didn’t think I would end up talking about the importance of addressing racism over and over again.
These incidents were embarrassing for me. As a climate activist I feel a deep ownership over the movement. And as a woman of color, I have a deep connection with the anti-racism movement. How can I defend my colleagues in the climate movement to fellow anti-racism activists, when they show such little empathy towards racial struggles?
“People of color” only exist to white Warmists to use as props when needed
Aktivist*innen von #FridaysForFuture, Greenpeace, @urgewald und aus NRW haben heute gemeinsam gegen #Datteln4 demonstriert. Wir lassen nicht zu, dass @UniperGermany unsere Zukunft verheizt! #StopDatteln4 pic.twitter.com/nfrM2zMJMU
— Greenpeace e.V. (@greenpeace_de) May 20, 2020
OK, let’s defend Greenpeace a bit: maybe they were just grabbing photos for the tweets and these ones stood out. Perhaps they weren’t thinking “how do we amplify the one woman of color present. Perhaps she just wasn’t in the photos. Or, maybe they cut her out. We don’t know.
Over time, I realized, it’s not that the climate movement doesn’t know its problems or is completely uneducated. It is rather, inside the movement there is a status quo, and I am expected to fit in. I am tolerated in climate spaces as long as I don’t claim the same ownership as the white activists. Black, indigenous and people of colour (BIPoC) are welcome when we fit the role of a ‘token’ or a ‘victim voice’.
Um, we’ve been telling y’all that Modern Socialists really do not care, and they are, if not racists, just plain prejudiced, and think they know what’s best for those who are uber-white Modern Socialists. They really do have low opinions of POC.
Also, it doesn’t seem like most POC care about the climate scam enough to get involved.
