Climate Change - A Race Issue?

[mushroom25]

"black lives matter" blocked the M4 in a show of solidarity with climate activists and are now in court:-
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4128438/Black-Lives-Matter-Heathrow-protesters-trial.html

I cannot for the life of me see how issues of climate change and US police officers' attitude to black people are connected - would someone please explain?

[anotheoldgit]

Is it about some, who soon get hot under the collar?

[EDDIE51]

Black lives matter are just after publicity any way they can get it.
Remember their last stunt, climbing onto the Runway of London city airport by rowing across the Thames ?

[sp1814]

BLM is not a movement that is solely focussed on US Police Officers' attitude to black Americans.

The movement has expanded to encompass the impact that climate change has on developing countries, because of the link between emissions, climate change and the impact that these changes have (disproportionately) on 'people of colour'.

This article from Newsweek goes into further detail:

http://europe.newsweek.com/black-lives-matter-right-climate-change-race-problem-kill-minorities-people-496723?rm=eu

[vortex]

A lot of statistics in that link.Aside from the legitimacy of Rehan,can the accuracy of his report be factually verified?

[vetuste_ennemi]

//It's hard to put an accurate estimate on how many lives are lost each year to climate change, or how many communities destroyed. Some figures suggest up to 700,000 additional deaths per year, although climate change fans every existing inequality in the world.//

"...lost to climate change"? "...fans every existing inequality". Dear me!

[vortex]

Divebuddy,the report does read rather amateurish in parts.I just wondered whether the figures are independently approved.

[vetuste_ennemi]

And yes, in reply to the OP, there IS a connection between the two "causes". If we take the baser reasons for espousing BLM on the one hand and man-made climate change on the other (don't get me wrong - I don't doubt that many people supporters of the two causes are such for honest and decent reasons), both causes are harmful to civil society, BLM because of its promotion of hatred and social division, and climate change because of the costs it imposes on Western industry.

[vetuste_ennemi]

The writer is a hack reporting conclusions as facts.

[douglas9401]

Am I the only person to have been brought up watching reports of drought, famine, crop failure, floods, fires, storms of whatever name and general mayhem and inequality on the nightly news?
Nothing new here except they've changed the busted flush of the coming ice-age of my childhood with something far less tangible and more profitable for government and media shamen alike but it all still rolls along.

[ToraToraTora]

wonder how many holidays or more important trips they ruined, eejits.

[vortex]

They will all be convicted but that is no consolation for those who may have missed flights,had to deal with impatient kids etc.

[sp1814]

Okay - so there appears to be a consensus here.

Good stuff.

[-Talbot-]

sp, define 'people of color' for me.

[mushroom25]

//Okay - so there appears to be a consensus here. //

does that mean that anyone who publically identifies as a climate change sceptic is in fact, a racist?

[sp1814]

No mushroom25.

No it does not.

[sp1814]

-Talbot-

I'm sure that you can look up the term using Google.

[anotheoldgit]

I often wonder why these 'people of colour' who live out their lives comfortably in Western countries of the world, never seem to campaign against matters of extreme concern, that take place on the continent of their ancestors?