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 ...
Huh. Funny.
Since most of those neighborhoods have been there for a century or more and were originally inhabited by white people.
Those crafty racists really plan ahead....
Urban plantings are great but in large amounts they don’t really equal affordable housing. Why? Density is why. More open space means less room for dwelling units. So the builder charges a higher price per unit. That is why you have people with more income living in such places. It’s not racism systematic or otherwise.
One way to make it more affordable to build lower cost dwelling units and have open space? Reduce fees associated with development and construction and find a way to expedite reviews and permitting. Time really is money.
It is because the majority are selfish, uneducated, lazy, thugs.
Welfare queens don’t have time to plant trees.
You know, maybe not so much blacks, but white liberals love to say those things, they love to think they speak for all blacks. Most times when something is deemed offensive, it's not blacks saying it, it's white liberals.
They are probably experiencing a hotter summer because it might be hotter in northwest Washington than last year. And that heat also affects all folks. However if they don’t have air conditioning because of power shortages, that isn’t ‘racism’ it is because the radical environmentalists have encourage the closure of coal, natural gas, nuclear and hydro power plants. And the ‘greenie correct’ wind fan towers and solar panels can’t produce the amount of kilo/megawatts of need electrical power.
Hot temps are a result of high-density employment creating urban canyons of employees and associated transportation corridors. All of which, through taxes, benefit the urban poor via a wide availability of social programs a smaller city couldn’t afford to provide. I don’t think one can really call that ‘racism’. What is oppressive, however, is the cost of electricity to run that air conditioner.
Unbelievably moronic.
If our universities do get get funded and start to fail, we will never have professors and PhD candidates with vitally important findings like like this in dissertations and serious scholarly peer reviewed papers.
(( Yayyyyyyyy.))
Coming soon.....checking and savings accounts owned by whites is racist. Think that’s stupid? Well imagine would you have ever seen such a stupid article 20 years ago? No. I am worried about my children’s future at the rate things are going.
if universities do NOT get funded.... typo
Yours is the post of the day!
True
After I hit “post” I actually thought I should have included (and white journalists and grade school teachers)
Wealthier “urban residential neighborhoods generally have greater vegetation cover, canopy cover, and plant diversity,”
Submitted for your approval:
A stretch limo is being chauffeured around, carrying the follow passengers:
A White Businessman, A White Government Official, A White Industrialist, A White Educator, A White Scientist, and a White Clergyman. They are discussing how to spend their evening. One suggests the Opera, another, a Broadway Play. Yet another suggests a Museum, and another, a Sports Venue. Still another suggests an Arboretum, an Historic Site, or perhaps a World-Famous Library.
Finally, one comes up with a cool idea:
“I know! Let’s go down to the Ghetto and cut down all the trees!”
You guessed it. This could only happen in THE TWILIGHT ZONE.
I grew up in the inner City. I know.
“following” passengers.
(SIGH)
Most of the trees planted in city neighborhoods were planted decades and decades ago. The neighborhoods today are not likely in the same economic bracket as they were when the trees were planted.
Good neighborhoods have a lot of trees because rich people like to buy houses in neighborhoods that have lots of trees, and then they remodel the houses, and drive the prices up.
Rich people don’t buy houses in neighborhoods with no trees, so nobody remodels those houses, and the prices drop and they become ghettos.
It’s the propaganda that must be fought
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3880206/posts#29
And if the city planted trees and shrubs they’d complain that it was taking space where people could hang out.
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