Should climate change be added to the civil rights agenda?

UK Guardian ^ | August 30, 2013 | Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

[Oldeconomybuyer]

We marched against the recent attack on voting rights. We demanded justice in the face of Stand Your Ground laws and racial profiling. We marched to raise awareness on unemployment, poverty, gun violence, immigration, and gay rights. And we called for action on climate change.

Chances are, when you think about civil rights, environmental issues aren't on the radar screen. But stop and think about it. Remember Hurricane Katrina?

The hurricane that leveled New Orleans showed that severe weather in low-income neighborhoods and communities of colour is a matter of life and death. The images from the storm are hard to forget: bodies floating in water for days and thousands of people stranded without shelter, waiting for help that was too slow to come.

It's not difficult to see how injustice and inequality played out during Hurricane Katrina. Thousands of people were subjected to needless loss, suffering, even death — just because they didn't have the resources to prepare and escape the storm.

What's harder to see is the imminent threat that severe weather — occurring with increased frequency and voracity — poses to our communities.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The "green" movement is full of radical communist vermin. Hardcore Marxists.

[atomic_dog]

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins is Van Jones without a Y chromosome.

[bigheadfred]

Should climate change be added to the civil rights agenda?

Why not? It is a black mark against truth and science.

[servo1969]

Sure, why not?

Hey, I know - While we’re at it why don’t we sh!! in one hand and wish in the other and see which one fills up first?

[Travis McGee]

“If you are a global climate change denier, you are trying to murder children, therefore you must shut up, or else.”

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[M Kehoe]

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

Ok, now I understand.

5.56mm

[onyx]

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[JSteff]

Sure, the more confusion the better. It has worked for O man for 4 years now.

[OldNavyVet]

British Scientist Steve Jones tells us in his "Darwin's Ghost" book that ... "Five hundred million years ago, the air had twenty times as much carbon dioxide as it contains now," and that "... growth rings from four hundred million years ago show that there were then four hundred days a year."

In short, science tells us that today's "global warming" is a hoax.

[Luna]

The hurricane that leveled New Orleans showed that severe weather in low-income neighborhoods and communities of colour is a matter of life and death

The author may as well have added "but if those hurricanes went after those greedy rich white folks, well, we wouldn't care. In fact, they'd deserve it. Social justice!"

[Venturer]

Why not-—It’s all Bull$hit anyway.

[VeniVidiVici]

We need to see what these left-wing idiots look like

[Islander7]

...The hurricane that leveled New Orleans showed that severe weather in low-income neighborhoods and communities...

For the ten millionth time, Katrina DID NOT hit NOLA. The levees broke the morning AFTER the storm passed.

[bigheadfred]

LOL—nicely stated

[wku man]

We're trying to reason with stupid people. You can't fix stupid, only kick its a**. If A = B and B = C, then A = C.

CW2 will be rural vs. urban, old(er) vs. young(er), and above room temperature IQ vs. below room temperature IQ.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[Hardastarboard]

We marched to raise awareness on unemployment, poverty, gun violence, immigration, and gay rights.

I'm so aware of all of these things that I never want to hear about them again. But the Left is like the Cambodian indoctrinators under Pol Pot - they're up in our faces screaming at us without relent.

[jimfree]

Yes, please complete the dishonoring of the dream.

[RedMDer]

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We can do this!!

[headstamp 2]

More insane backflips from a 3 name liberal.