I see a big opportunity in the relationship between air pollution and COVID comorbidities and associated fatality rates. If only a journalist would ask about this at one of these press conferences, "Since we know that air pollution increases COVD-19 fatalities, will you put the previous air pollution regulations back in place to save lives?" With 8m people watching the daily circus we'd get a lot of traction in one minute.
The completely unjustified attacks on the "white" environmental movement of past decades show that the social justice movement remains uninformed and hostile to those who, with little or no pay, spent their lives fighting air and water pollution, workplace safety, coastal zone and wilderness and endangered species protection and dangerous synthetic chemicals....without one iota of recognition or SUPPORT from black communities and the left. The reason environmental groups were mostly white was simple: blacks preferred to organize and control their own communities rather than joining in or working alongside these groups. Blacks defined environmental issues not as scientific or technological problems but as disempowerment, racism and poverty. Nothing ever prevented black activists from joining or working with these groups. They were welcome. But they refused to do so, deliberately. Now the social justice climate activists are trying to denigrate or dismiss the fifty-year efforts of white activists. They are overlooking the fact that without those groups we would never have any of the
laws and policies we have today, either nationally or locally. These are the people that
put their lives and livelihoods on the line for EVERYONE, not just whites or the wealthy. They are the reason we have any natural areas, resources or wildlife at all today. It is high time for these negative divisive attitudes to stop and for them to acknowledge the actual HISTORY and PEOPLE that created the movement they are now trying to co-opt, by putting social justice ahead of the planet. For shame! You are irresponsible. You are uneducated. Wake up and learn to cooperate with others. You won't win on your own.
I see a big opportunity in the relationship between air pollution and COVID comorbidities and associated fatality rates. If only a journalist would ask about this at one of these press conferences, "Since we know that air pollution increases COVD-19 fatalities, will you put the previous air pollution regulations back in place to save lives?" With 8m people watching the daily circus we'd get a lot of traction in one minute.
The completely unjustified attacks on the "white" environmental movement of past decades show that the social justice movement remains uninformed and hostile to those who, with little or no pay, spent their lives fighting air and water pollution, workplace safety, coastal zone and wilderness and endangered species protection and dangerous synthetic chemicals....without one iota of recognition or SUPPORT from black communities and the left. The reason environmental groups were mostly white was simple: blacks preferred to organize and control their own communities rather than joining in or working alongside these groups. Blacks defined environmental issues not as scientific or technological problems but as disempowerment, racism and poverty. Nothing ever prevented black activists from joining or working with these groups. They were welcome. But they refused to do so, deliberately. Now the social justice climate activists are trying to denigrate or dismiss the fifty-year efforts of white activists. They are overlooking the fact that without those groups we would never have any of the
laws and policies we have today, either nationally or locally. These are the people that
put their lives and livelihoods on the line for EVERYONE, not just whites or the wealthy. They are the reason we have any natural areas, resources or wildlife at all today. It is high time for these negative divisive attitudes to stop and for them to acknowledge the actual HISTORY and PEOPLE that created the movement they are now trying to co-opt, by putting social justice ahead of the planet. For shame! You are irresponsible. You are uneducated. Wake up and learn to cooperate with others. You won't win on your own.