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ENVIRONMENT GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE :
AFRICAN AMERICANS:
Black Lives Matter Is Right: Climate Change Is Race Related
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Black Lives Matter Is Right: Climate Change Is Race Related
September 9, 2016
Asad Rehman
Posted with permission from Newsweek
Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/
black-lives-matter-is-right-climate-change-is-race-related/
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/j37k8a8
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Some people really dont like facts, preferring to be swayed by feeling,
hearsay, assumption, and whatever comes along to affirm their own world
view. Its would be interesting if it didnt have so much capacity to do
damage.
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Friends of the Earth were called racist and all sorts of things yesterday
by the keyboard warrior contingent for supporting the Black Lives Matter
protest at City Airport.
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Facts may not be very good at changing peoples minds but we are not yet so
deeply into a post-factual society that we shouldnt at least consider
them. Heres an honest to God, straight up and down fact:
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We have just witnessed a record-breaking 14 consecutive months of the
hottest global temperatures since records began, with vanishing Arctic sea
ice and the bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef just the latest reality we
have to face. Scientists say we have to go back 120,000 years before we
find hotter temperatures than those currently recorded and are now
predicting sea level rises of 10 feet by 2065. Think of some of the
largest cities in the world and where they areRio, Mumbai, Hong Kong, and
Shanghaito realize what sea level rises will mean.
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Climate scientists, governments, civil society and anyone else thinking
rationally recognize that the impact of our carbon pollution will mean
failing agriculture, greater food insecurity, more intense droughts and
floods, record-breaking super typhoons and hurricanes, increased water
shortages, more extreme weather. These elements lead to the forced
displacement of people, and an increase in conflicts, and this is
happening now.
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Typhoon Haiyan, which hit the Philippines in 2013, left 7,000 dead and 2
million homeless. Floods in Pakistan in 2010 affected 20 million people.
This years heatwave in India and Pakistan hit 51C, while in the Sahel (the
sub-Saharan region of Africa) drought has affected 23 million, and left
3.5 million displaced. Just one tropical storm, Erika, which hit the
Caribbean island of Dominica last year, put back development gains by 20
years. And all this is happening at an average temperature of increase of
1C.
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Its hard to put an accurate estimate on how many lives are lost each year
to climate change, or how many communities destroyed. Some figures suggest
up to 700,000 additional deaths per year, although climate change fans
every existing inequality in the world.
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Who are these people who are dying, and who is responsible? Its the
greatest injustice of climate change, that those who are the least
responsible for causing the climate crisis, are the first to suffer. The
poor, the marginalized, the indigenous communities are on the frontlineand
they are overwhelmingly people of color in developing countries. And where
it is richer, more developed countries dealing with wildfires, such as
those in Australia, the U.S. or the floods in Europe, they invariably have
more resources to deal with the impact.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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