Nah, she's a mental case.
Posted on 06/17/2021 6:28:01 AM PDT by Stravinsky
But I cannot emphasize this enough: The existence of wealthy non-white people is not a counterpoint to the fact that the climate crisis was strongly perpetuated by white, Western European ideas about dominance. (Nor is the existence of poor, white people who suffer because of our climate-destroying economic system.) Across social classes, the Western European ideal of “success” is based very much on extractive economies, materialism, and individualism — each a pillar of the climate crisis. When you consider this foundation, it is not a coincidence that almost all of those mega-billionaires are white.
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There is no shortage of examples: the Industrial Revolution(its associated emissions are widely considered the original sin of climate change); colonization, an invention of white Western Europeans, which in addition to taking many Indigenous lives undid much of tribes’ stewardship of vital ecosystems; the American promise of “freedom” that was, in fact, built on the backs of enslaved people.
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You can see that same system play out today in the way that communities of color continue to suffer the environmental consequences of the American consumerist lifestyle, often without enjoying its benefits. A recent study, for example, found that Asian, Black, and Hispanic Americans breathe more polluted air than white people do — which is by design. Highly polluted shipping warehouses, industrial facilities, and highways have all been systematically installed in non-white communities. And it is no secret that white-controlled governments have worked very hard to suppress votes from people of color to keep them from reshaping this system.
The heart of your question, JUSTICE, is not whether every white person is bad for the planet. It’s about whether it’s possible to separate white people as individuals from the legacy that white-favoring systems have wrought on the world. And that is a very complicated prospect!
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As one of my relatives would say, “She needs to get out more.” Navel-gazing racism isn’t healthy for anyone.
Nah, she's a mental case.
maybe Islam is right about women
Essentially, progress and technology are bad.
The woman would not be alive today, if Western Civ had not dominated.
More Marxist blather.
Unfortunately, Biden’s government takes this deadly seriously.
Well working does make “factories” which need to be heated and lighted. We also drive our kids to school, visit grandma, go to state parks....and we cook our kids meals. Damn white people.
Going from a low to high standard of living raises one’s carbon footprint, no? So bringing in droves of relatively poor people into America is a big contributor to climate change, no?
O.m.g...”climate reparations “... and of course she threw this in...
“And it is no secret that white-controlled governments have worked very hard to suppress votes from people of color to keep them from reshaping this system. In fact, many are still at it to this day!”
Instant diagnosis. The writer is an attention-seeking, self-loathing narcissist with “daddy” issues.
Replace the word white in the above construct with another human skin color or religion and you'll see the inherent racism in the whole concept.
Example: The heart of your question, JUSTICE, is not whether every Muslim person is bad for the planet. It’s about whether it’s possible to separate Muslim people as individuals from the legacy that Islam-favoring systems have wrought on the world. And that is a very complicated prospect!
It’s only been a hundred years since women were allowed to vote.
Nah, it's the other way around.
Maybe someone should remind this dumb broad that (mostly) white men invented nearly every product of convenience and utility that she’s ever used in her moonbat life.
And it was (mostly) white men who invented ways to clean up the environment.
Africa isn’t exactly being well managed.
“It is no secret that” someone, somewhere will publish blather like this without the masthead “The Onion” or “The Babylon Bee”.
I suppose it keeps the satirists on their toes to try and top the spew that is published in “serious” publications.
Of course we are. Being white is BAD for EVERYthing.
Socialists and communists are bad for the environment.
The writer is a racist.
Skin color has nothing to do with anything.
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