Ms. E. Warren says so. White people cause pollution, and minorities have to breathe it in.
$1 trillion dollars in reparations to minorities.... This should do it, to help minorities to move out of their neighborhoods.
https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/environmental-justice?source=soc-WB-ew-tw-rollout-20191009
I wonder.... am I living in the Twilight Zone?
The most amazing display of ignorance is her constant referral to all of this as being part of climate change.
The pollution that she refers to has ZERO to do with climate or climate change(which is the weather averaged over a period of 30 years or longer).
Warren constantly insists that she is all about science............but blunders over and over in spouting anti science, including not knowing that this is not climate change.....but using those magic words........."climate change" and "climate crisis"is like when a hypnotist is casting a spell to hypnotize people, who suddenly, have their brains captured and no longer can think for themselves...........abiding by the hypnotist's commands.
It just so happens that the pollution that she speaks of in Detroit.........is in the same district where I grew up and where my Dad's house is.
She states:
"In Detroit, I met with community members diagnosed with cancer linked to exposure to toxins after years of living in the shadow of a massive oil refinery."
Here is the truth:
https://www.michiganradio.org/post/where-are-cancer-hot-spots-michigan
"Four counties on the south side of the Tittabawassee River and the Saginaw River into Saginaw Bay are the hottest spots in Michigan for all of these cancers.
“The number one culprit that everybody points to is the DOW chemical plant, which from 1890 to the 1970s, discharged all kinds of waste that were later found out to be carcinogenic into the river,” Sinclair said. “And the cleanup continues today.” Sinclair says the hot spots all have lakes, rivers, and a history of environmental abuse in common. He advises people living in these areas be cautious with drinking water."
metmike: This is 100 miles north of Detroit (the location that she refers to which is 80% black-which is the only reason she picked that location). However, why isn't she going after the water pollution/toxins up there that are much worse with the cancer rates much higher???
Looky here below and you get the reason. Guess who the congress person is for that district she speaks of(and her Detroit contact for all this information)?
| Rashida Tlaib |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 13th district | |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashida_Tlaib
"In 2018 Tlaib won the Democratic nomination for the United States House of Representatives seat from Michigan's 13th congressional district. She ran unopposed in the general election and became the first Palestinian-American woman in Congress, the first Muslim woman to serve in the Michigan legislature and, with Ilhan Omar (D-MN), one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress.[4][5]
Tlaib is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). She and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are the third and fourth DSA members to serve in Congress and the first female DSA members to serve in Congress. Tlaib is the first DSA member from a Midwestern district elected to the U.S. House.[6][7] Tlaib has been a vocal critic of the Trump administration and advocated impeachment of President Donald Trump. On foreign affairs, she has sharply criticized the Israeli government, called for an end to U.S. aid to Israel, and expressed support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign. Tlaib is a member of the informal group known as "The Squad" along with Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)."
BTW, metmike is an environmentalist. There is legit pollution in this country, even though it's at a level that represents a fraction of 50 years ago, before the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act were passed, then actions by a then profoundly productive EPA.
This article/propoganda from Warren is loaded with anti science and false, misleading information about pollution with an objective of appearing to be doing something to fight for minorities that is FAKE.
If you are going to fight pollution...............then great fight pollution.
Stop wasting tens of billions of dollars on a fake climate crisis fighting a beneficial gas and we need to stop listening to fake environmentalists, many who create numerous times more pollution than you and me.
Here is an article from a practicing environmentalist:
The real environmental crisis's/insects dying-dead zones-aquifers drying up-plastics in the ocean: April 2019
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/27498/
You have to see this story(from our local paper where I grew up) that just came out for the same area............100% contradicting the impression that Warren gave of the same area..........and look who's in the picture.
U.S. Reps. Debbie Dingell (D-12th District) and Rashida Tlaib (D-13th District) kayaked the Rouge River Oct. 8 to highlight environmental cleanup of the river since it first caught fire 50 years ago. The kayaking began at the Melvindale Civic Arena and finished at Belanger Park in River Rouge.
The representatives passed through their congressional districts and the Ford Rouge Plant, AK Steel, Marathon Oil and Great Lakes Steel. Both representatives were amazed at the wildlife, including painted turtles, eagles, herrings, loons, geese, ducks, frogs, and other species.
“The Rouge River fire was a turning point in the environmental history of the U.S.,” Dingell said “After the fire, some got serious, rolled up their sleeves, knew it was right and began a very long process of cleaning up decades of pollution.
“Today, we are able to kayak the river and enjoy all it has to offer. This is what 50 years of work looks like, but we can’t turn the needle back now. We must continue to cleanup and not allow new chemicals and threats to endanger our water.”
“I thank the Friends of the Rouge and partners for putting together today’s tour of the Rouge River,” Tlaib said. “While Kayaking from Melvindale to River Rouge, we passed by AK Steel, Marathon Petroleum Refinery and DTE. I saw first-hand the importance of protecting our waterways.
“Fifty years ago the Rouge River caught on fire because it was heavily polluted. We still have so much work to do in cleaning it and its watershed up. This work will also help in continuing to create safe fishing and greenways for families. I look forward to working with Representative Dingell and my other colleagues in the Michigan delegation to ensure that we not only safeguard the environmental progress we’ve made, but expand on it as well.”
On Oct. 9, 1969, the Rouge River caught fire with flames over 50 feet high, burning for hours. The fire was a result of pollution and environmental neglect of the river. From 1956 to 1948, 5.93 million gallons of oil were dumped into the Rouge and Detroit rivers each year.
The burning and environmental neglect of the Rouge River is credited with jump starting the passage of the Clean Water Act in the late 1960s. For decades since the fire, the Rouge River has seen a turnaround in water quality and an increase in wildlife species.
“Since that fire 50 years ago, our country has made great progress on environmental protection,” Dingell said."
metmike: So Elizabeth Warren, why aren't you telling us about the massive clean up of pollution for this same district that you claim is polluting because of racism???
This also confirms my previous statement above: 'BTW, metmike is an environmentalist. There is legit pollution in this country, even though it's at a level that represents a fraction of 50 years ago, before the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act were passed, then actions by a then profoundly productive EPA."