House Majority Whip: Climate Change Hurts Blacks More - With Video
Just what we need…
Lets make Bogus Global Warming a racial issue too…
Clyburn says African-Americans ‘disproportionately impacted’; study recommends ‘fee, tax or allowance auction on polluters.’
By Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
7/29/2008 2:14:30 PM
Climate change is no longer just an environmental issue. It’s now an issue of race, according to global warming activists and policy makers.
“It is critical our community be an integral and active part of the debate because African-Americans are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change economically, socially and through our health and well-being,” House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., said July 29.
Clyburn spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to help launch the Commission to Engage African-Americans on Climate Change, a project of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.
The launch came on the heels of a separate report by the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (EJCC), which claims African-Americans are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change. EJCC describes itself as a “climate justice” advocacy group.
“Though far less responsible for climate change, African-Americans are significantly more vulnerable to its effects than non-Hispanic whites,” the report says. “Health, housing, economic well-being, culture, and social stability are harmed from such manifestations of climate change as storms, floods, and climate variability.
“African-Americans are also more vulnerable to higher energy bills, unemployment, recessions caused by global energy price shocks, and a greater economic burden from military operations designed to protect the flow of oil to the U.S,” it says.
The commission Clyburn helped launch claims Hurricane Katrina’s impact on New Orleans was a preview of how global warming will affect African-Americans.
“[W]hile individual storms cannot be linked specifically to climate change, scientists warn that warmer waters may foster-more intense storms,” the background paper on the commission’s efforts, authored by Michel Gelobter, Carla Peterman and Azebuilke Akaba said. “The flooding of New Orleans still highlights the vulnerability of the African-American community to types of extreme weather events expected with global climate change.”
But the goals of environmental and race activists don’t include allowing investors to earn the benefits of putting their money into proposed solutions.
J. Andrew Hoerner, director of the sustainable economics program at Redefining Progress and a co-author of the EJCC report, told the Business & Media Institute that solutions to climate change should be designed in a way so investors don’t reap all the benefits.
“There is a certain disconnect between what is good for workers, consumers, managers, and the economy on one hand and stockholders on the other,” Hoerner said. “We found that the combination of efficient market instruments, return of the revenue, cost-effective promotion of new clean technologies and efficiency, and targeted policies for low-income households grows the economy. It increases employment and profits overall, and provides a net benefit for consumers.”
The report suggested implementing a “fee, tax or allowance auction on polluters,” which was meant to “eliminate the financial burden on low-income and moderate-income households.This would pay for efforts to reduce global warming. Hoerner said that although it would cause product costs to increase, under his policy, the revenue from the “fee, tax, or allowance auction payment” would be redistributed to consumers to offset the higher costs.
“However, this increase in profits may be smaller than the windfall to stockholders if allowances are given away for free, even though this windfall is partially offset by higher product prices, lower sales, lower production and lower profits on the firm’s output, exclusive of the value of the allowances,” Hoerner continued. “Most businesses are energy consumers, not producers, and their interests lie with household energy consumers.”
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Yeah, I’ll bet you see new opportunities! An opportunity to remove more money from peoples pockets without them being able to do a damn thing about it!
July 29th, 2008 at 12:01 pmThe launch came on the heels of a separate report by the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (EJCC), which claims African-Americans are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change. EJCC describes itself as a “climate justice” advocacy group.
You can’t make this shit up! Ebonic Climate Justice!
July 29th, 2008 at 12:21 pmAnother big lie being foisted on the unaware taxpayers and all consumers…this shiphead Clyburn id a fool!
July 29th, 2008 at 12:28 pmWhat an idiot. Any money spent on global warming comes directly out of monies that could be spent on more useful projects, like alternative energy development, malnutrition, disease abatement, etc. Also, do these morons get it: pollution and global warming are not the same thing. Bottom line: democrats are nothing more than pickpockets and thieves that look for new pockets to pick. Whenever they see a big pot of money, they look to see how they can steal some. Fannie Mae had alot of money, Jesse Jackson accused them of “discrimination” until they starting sending hundreds of thousands in tax payer money in “donations” to his “cause,” oh, then the “discrimination” stopped.
July 29th, 2008 at 12:29 pmRead this fucking shit again:
“African-Americans are also more vulnerable to higher energy bills, unemployment, recessions caused by global energy price shocks, and a greater economic burden from military operations designed to protect the flow of oil to the U.S,” it says.
He is a stupid hand out lazy inept racist pig fucking bastard.
WTF?! WTF is he talking about? I was raised not to judge people based on race, but I am getting sick of this shit. This is as offensive as a cross burning and a noose hanging from a tree; accusing that my my white ass is responsible for your pathetic lazy life?
July 29th, 2008 at 12:30 pmGet off your lazy black ass and make something of yourself and get the fuck out of my pocket.
Typical.
July 29th, 2008 at 12:30 pmBlame it on the prosperous.The tried reasoning of the socialists.Every fault in your poor lives has nothing to do with your lack of initiative it is all the fault of people who strive to make a better life for themselves. Be envious for they are your enemies. They must be brought down so tax them til they have nothing more to tax.Disrespect and hate them because they have initiative and want a better life.
July 29th, 2008 at 12:46 pmCry me a river keep bla
ming other people for your problems, seems to be the only thing your good at these days
July 29th, 2008 at 12:48 pmAnother laughable ploy by the elected class to shove the “Oil makes us sick” mantra down everyone’s throat by saying it makes blacks sicker than crackers.
Just to put off actually doing something about energy this year.
Slightly twisting a Twain aphorism… “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a Democrat.”
July 29th, 2008 at 12:56 pmGlobal warming is rascist!!!! This crap is starting to make my head heart. It’d be funny if it wasnt so stupid.
July 29th, 2008 at 1:08 pmThese racist fools know they can get away with anything right now. Shit like this is just the warm up to the big show. Stand by, if Hussein is elected, reparations will be next! God save us all!
July 29th, 2008 at 1:22 pmAnd these are the brightest from da hood, huh?
It’s way past time for these pathetic “Americans” to get off the porch of the plantation, but, they seem comfortable there, dumb bastards.
July 29th, 2008 at 1:36 pmOh, by the way, you folk are becoming a distinct liability in this country.
So that is what happened to Mike Tyson… too much sun.
July 29th, 2008 at 8:21 pm