Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Wednesday unveiled her plan to address “environmental injustice” and “environmental racism,” which includes a $1 trillion investment into minority communities affected by “industrial pollution.”
Warren argues that “justice” plays a massive role in properly addressing the climate change “crisis,” citing studies that suggest that black and Hispanic families are disproportionately affected by air pollution caused by white people:
A more recent study found that while whites largely cause air pollution, Blacks and Latinxs are more likely to breathe it in. Unsurprisingly, these groups also experience higher rates of childhood asthma. And many more low-income and minority communities are exposed to toxins in their water – including lead and chemicals from industrial and agricultural run-off.
Warren calls this phenomenon “environmental racism” and concludes that “environmental injustice is the result of decades of discrimination and environmental racism compounding in communities that have been overlooked for too long.”
She previewed her plan in a video clip featuring far-left “Squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).
“We need a government that’s on the side of families—not giant corporations polluting our communities. @RashidaTlaib and I walked through 48217, the most polluted zip code in Michigan, and talked with the families living every day with the effects of pollution,” Warren tweeted alongside the clip:
We need a government that’s on the side of families—not giant corporations polluting our communities. @RashidaTlaib and I walked through 48217, the most polluted zip code in Michigan, and talked with the families living every day with the effects of pollution. pic.twitter.com/LsXlZQza7r
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) October 8, 2019
Like Warren’s other proposals, her environmental injustice plan weaves in aspects of her other campaign promises.
For instance, Warren says her housing plan will provide an assistance program, aimed to get impoverished families out of poor, pollution-ridden neighborhoods and into the “neighborhood of their choice.”
She also pledges to invest one-third – or $1 trillion – of her climate change investment “into the most vulnerable communities,” although she does not specify what the $1 trillion will be spent on, specifically.
Like most of Warren’s plans, her environmental injustice proposal involves the implementation of another tax. In this instance, it is the “Superfund Waste Tax.”
Her plan states:
There are over 1300 remaining Superfund sites across the country, many located in or adjacent to frontline communities. So-called “orphan” toxic waste clean-ups were originally funded by a series of excise taxes on the petroleum and chemical industries. But thanks to Big Oil and other industry lobbyists, when that tax authority expired in 1995 it was not renewed. Polluters must pay for the consequences of their actions – not leave them for the communities to clean up. I’ll work with Congress to reinstate and then triple the Superfund tax, generating needed revenue to clean up the mess.
The presidential hopeful even weaves in Medicare for All as part of her broader proposal, arguing such a system will “make it easier for the federal government to quickly tailor health care responses to specific environmental disasters in affected communities when they occur.”
Warren also reiterates her pledge to “ensure that employers and our government honor the promises they made to workers in fossil fuel industries.”
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“A more recent study found that while whites largely cause air pollution, Blacks and Latinxs are more likely to breathe it in.”
Lizzy’s depth of ignorance and height of arrogance on display.
The idea that pollution is focused on the poor or minorities is just dishonest. Air pollution is not contained and spreads out indiscriminately. Water pollution in the US is doing very well, so pretending that this is a major problem is misdirection. There are individual cases, nothing widespread.
However, claiming all of these amazing conclusions regarding the real world (pollution and climate change) means that she should be backing this all up with some real science and real studies. We all know that that will not be coming any time soon. It is important not to assume that any politician is spouting real science until one actually checks it. Even if they spout details of a real study, you have to look up the study to make sure the presented facts are real. We have Rachael Carson as the poster child of cherry-picking data and hiding inconvenient data from real studies. Her book was and is a lie. Al Gore is simply the cinema successor of Carson.
Warren is just an acolyte of lying to the public regarding science. She has so many programs planned that the funds for them are mounting and becoming hard to distinguish. One can only assume a 50+% tax increase if she is elected as she will be ravenous for cash to throw to her constituents to ameliorate the high taxes on they and the rest of us.
Christiana Figueres, the former head of the IPCC, said that the purpose of the climate change movement was not the climate, but to transfer the wealth of the industrial nations to the developing nations. Now Sen. Warren is using climate change as an excuse to give a trillion dollars to minorities. It seems with liberals anything they don’t like is automatically branded racist. Climate change is nothing more than a lame excuse. In California where there is still air pollution you don’t find public transportation being used just by minorities and only whites using cars. Minorities buy the same products that whites do from industries that cause pollution. Beyond this, the US has done a great deal to clean up pollution in the last few decades. Much of the pollution of poor neighborhoods comes from its own residents littering.
The tax payer or consumers always pay the cost of give away programs. One trillion works out to $6,800 per household.
The Chancellor tells us that we have “latinx” at the university, but I’ve never met any. One of my colleagues is Hispanic, but she says she’s not latinx.
She could renounce her alter ego Pocahontas, declare herself Robin Hood the Transgendered.
He/she wouldn’t need umpteen reasons for wealth transfer. ‘It’s what I do’
“RashidaTlaib and I walked through 48217, the most polluted zip code in Michigan, and talked with the families living every day with the effects of pollution”
48217, is just one of 70 DNC polluted zip codes in Wayne County, Michigan in need of some serious swamp draining. MAGA