Discuss: Global Warming Is Colorblind

This artical breaks my heart.  There are so many things that people are blind to and maybe don’t mean to to be.  I work at a national park and get pretty excited when African American people visit the park because I hope they will pass the word to other folks.  I will try harder to spread the word.

We must act harder!

Not seeing faces such as yours or mine most likely speaks to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, wouldn’t you think?

If you are spending all of your time trying to eke out a sub-standard existence, when or where would minorities living in or near poverty demographics find the time or the desire to take a nature hike?

Hi Global Warming

Your comment was Short and sweet if everyone did their part however short and however sweet we will ALL win in the end!

I currently live in a community in San Francisco where there are 325 toxic emmission sites. I was told that some are under the EPA standards, but the simple fact that there are 325 negates anything a few companies are doing right. The community is predominately ethnic, so to some degree I have to assume some of the Colorblindness is intentional.

Aaaanndd KLSD seems to be ... ???

When organic food and environmentally friendly products become affordable for those with very limited means, then the environmental movement will be able to spread to minorities. The fact of the matter is that minorities in this country generally have less money than whites, and sustainable products are generally pricier. It’s an issue of economics.

Reading this article made me come to realize this; if we want more people to be involved, more people need to be informed. I don’t understand how a non-profit nature center sent information to a more white and well-off population if the community. That makes me wonder if they are looking for donations from those people and tend to send information to them for this reason. It is true that all people of all different races should receive this kind of information. They could send this information to different areas every year, on some sort if information rotation system. Minorities should not be left out of this environmentalism equation. They are just as likely to get involved in nature as any other person. It is true that global warming is not colorblind, so why is it that information about stopping or slowing global warming is? I am sure that some of those minority radio stations and newspapers would have donated a space to a good cause, successfully getting the word out, if they would have been asked. We need not look over such a fast growing part of our economy, when their involvement would help make the change we need to make.