What does global warming have to do with poverty?
Posted by: mikeg
| 11 Aug 09 | 2 comments
This video from Green For All spells it out pretty nicely, I think:Read more about "why the Senate must pass bold climate legislation this fall, and why we need a vibrant movement based in low-income communities and communities of color" on the Green for All blog.
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How about NO MORE COAL plants? The price of NOT funding alternative energy sources is way too high and should not be paid for by children in lower-income communities.
A website by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health has re-published an article by Anne Harding writing for Reuters Health. She has reported on important findings that are detailed in a report on childhood asthma appearing in the "Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology", June 2009. One clear conclusion: "Childhood asthma is less common in neighborhoods with high economic potential and strong community vitality..."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also highlighted the growing problem in their report "Summary Health Statistics for U.S. Children: National Health Interview Survey, 2007" This statistical review says "Children in poor families were more likely to have ever been diagnosed with asthma or to still have asthma (17% and 12%) than children in families that were not poor (12% and 8%)."
So many of the costs of our culture of over-consumption are paid by communities that can least afford them.
the lack of meaningful action thus far, and the charade of a "climate bill" being debated in Congress right now, is an unconscionable moral failing on the part of the developed world and its leaders. that's why we gotta keep taking our message to them.