Climate alarmists have upped the ante once more, insisting global warming is directly tied to law enforcement and therefore “climate justice” cannot be achieved without defunding the police.
“It’s impossible to disentangle the various threads of environmental racism and its ties with policing,” writes Brian Kahn, managing editor of Earther. “The history of redlining and police-enforced segregation has led to massive hotter neighborhoods and more people with chronic health problems tied to air pollution.”
“Despite that, large parts of the climate movement have so far remained silent about the current wave of protests and the role of policing in climate policy,” Kahn laments. “But without defunding the police, let alone more direct ideas of abolishing them altogether, there can never really be climate justice.”
As astonishing as this claim may seem to readers unfamiliar with the new logic of the Left, it is not without precedents.
When President Trump announced in 2017 that he was pulling the United States out of the Paris climate accord, several journals and news outlets rushed to accuse him of “environmental racism.”
Blavity, a website that caters to people of color, said that Mr. Trump’s decision would “worsen environmental racism,” insisting that climate change is “inherently a black issue and not just a ‘human issue.’”
Essence magazine said that when Trump announced the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate accord he continued “his war on people of color in America.”
The Atlantic went so far as to suggest that environmental racism is “the new Jim Crow,” referring to laws that segregated blacks and whites in their use of public schools, public places, transportation, restrooms, and restaurants.
Since it may not be evident how an unwillingness to bind America to a certain level of carbon dioxide emissions constitutes racism, these same outlets helpfully connected the dots, explaining how neglect of environmental concerns constitutes an attack on blacks.
full story at https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2020/06/09/alarmists-no-climate-justice-without-defunding-the-police/