Climate Change-- A Real Issue that We Need to Be Worried About [VIDEO]
Posted on September 12, 2008 5:00 PM
Written By Biko
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I know that some of you don't agree with me, but people of color need to have a real conversation about what's going on with the environment. And I am not talking about tree hugging and saving the whales. I'm talking about climate change, more specifically I am talking about these mu'fing Hurricanes.
Come on y'all, are you serious? Do you see how big that storm is? And pardon me if I don't think Hurricanes are cool!! I mean maybe one a year is cool if you really like wind, rain and sh*t like that. But come on man, can you imagine how f*cked you are if you live in Haiti?
See, I think people are convinced that climate change is a white person's issue. But how crazy is that? Maybe it's just me, but bears and trees aren't the only things that live in the "environment" If you haven't noticed we live in the environment too. And I ain't even trying to hear the folks that say that climate change is some shit Al Gore made up to get rich.
And the poorer you are, the more likely you are going to get fucked up when these environmental disasters keep coming. Just ask the folks that used to live in NOLA's Lower 9th ward. I dunno, seems to me like maybe the environment is the most important thing we should be talking about.
I am sure you heard of the Pyramid of Need, by psychologist Abraham Maslow...
If not, we might want to wikipedia it because it is pretty interesting. But in an oversimplified nutshell, it says people can't think about global warming (on the pyramid, either a level-2 item, safety, or level 6, self-actualization) if they can't always eat right (level 1, first basic need).
Once brothas are fed, have clean drinking water, and are not ravaged by poor-people-diseases , they will start to think about 'white people' stuff (earth future, hurricane predictions, etc).
Besides, climate change is said to be linked to global warming, which is a result of over-industrialization: not a thing an Haitian can do anything about.
One word, HARRP