Posted on 09/03/2020 1:33:50 PM PDT by Zenyatta
A new study by the University of Washington-Tacoma argues that one of the reasons why minority communities in inner cities experience hot temperatures in the summer is because of systemic racism.
Assistant Professor of Urban Ecology Christopher Schell and the co-authors of the study concluded that systemic racism in city planning leads to fewer trees being planted in low-income neighborhoods and, consequently, higher temperatures.
Wealthier “urban residential neighborhoods generally have greater vegetation cover, canopy cover, and plant diversity,” reads the paper, titled “The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments.”
“The geographic distribution of urban heat islands and tree canopy cover in cities is also stratified by race: multiple studies have repeatedly demonstrated that land surface temperatures are magnified for racially minoritized groups in many U.S. cities with certain racial groups more vulnerable than others,” the study reads.
(Excerpt) Read more at lacortenews.com ...
But if we put in trees we are “gentrifying” and “Europeanizing” them.
It’s always hot in the “food desert”.
When everything is racist nothing is racist.
Make me wanna holler!
Yep, even Mother nature and the Earth is racist.........
Their brains are fried.
Wait, DIVERISTY! That isn't enough??
WTFF!l?
You can’t make this stuff up.
Whites and other suburbanites planting trees is not systemic, nor any other kind, of racism. Next it’ll be that it’s racism causing the intelligence gap between us and people who believe this crap. We’ll have to have intelligence redistribution as reparations.
Not the Bab Bee??
Housing Projects start out with trees and “green spaces”.
Then the trees are vandalized, and die.
The park benches are covered with graffiti and yanked apart.
The grass becomes littered, and finally turns to hard dirt, gets paved over, a basketball hoop installed, the net stolen, the hoop pulled down, and broken glass, used needles, garbage and trash litter the original “green spaces”.
And all because of “systemic racism”.
REALLY?
I wonder who paid for those trees, or paid to preserve them knocked when when the houses were constructed, or paid to have them planted years ago?
That’s comedy gold right there. These idiots are writing a parody of themselves and are too demented to notice.
Yep.
Seems to me that we’re keeping the natural habitat. Africa is a hot, barren land...
how i wish they would simply shut up.
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