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It can be difficult for those charged with keeping us safe to prioritize the threats that face us, what with North Korea threatening war, the ongoing border war with drug cartels to our south, and a threat level that can never seem to get below Elevated.
But Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has a keen sense of what is important and so cleared her calendar to attend a forum yesterday that identified something our national security apparatus has been sorely lacking:
“Environmental Justice.”
What is environmental justice, you ask?
Environmental justice is like regular justice except that you’re already guilty.
The problem of environmental justice arises when people who earn more money are allowed to live in nicer places than people who earn less.
And it’s probably only going to get worse.
Some examples of our shortfalls in environmental justice include the fact that the air in major cities tends not to be as good as the air in the country. This is clearly unfair to the lower income people who live there, as they deserve all the benefits of living in the country, without having to actually make any of the sacrifices of moving there.
They will take checks, however.
Also, many poorer people hired as farm workers to pick fruit and vegetables are exposed to higher levels of pesticides than people who don’t pick fruit and vegetables for a living.
We are shocked to learn that different jobs entail different kinds of risks and demand that a stop be put to it. And that our taxes go up.
But it’s not just that some places aren’t as good as others or that life involves an infinite series of tradeoffs that are the problems. As Napolitano (who we should probably remind you is in charge of our nation’s security) points out economic justice demands that we address global warming as well:
“Changes in climate really translate into huge environmental changes that have impacts on communities and also on national security, because they raise not only the issues of making sure that we are taking into account and caring for the most at-risk populations, but that we are also looking at and planning for the potentiality of mass migrations, demographic changes, patterns, concentrations of economic assets, population growth in different areas, deteriorating infrastructure. All of this gets knit together under this umbrella of climate change and environmental adaptation.”
We don’t know about you, but we’ll sleep better at night knowing that the Secretary of Homeland Security is all over the potentiality of concentrations of assets. (Although it’s not entirely clear if anyone has told her where all the economic assets are currently concentrated, because we’d be really interested in seeing her plan for fixing to that.)
Read the rest here.
Obama sure knows how to pick ‘em.
Recently the Obama administration had a mutli-agency forum – including the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, the EPA, the Department of the Interior and the Department of Labor – about “environmental justice.”
So what the heck is “environmental justice?” As Carter Wood explains, it’s whatever the environmentalists decide it is at any given moment:
The trouble with “environmental justice” is that it means whatever the activists and grievance groups want it to mean. For some, it’s compensation because their ethnic groups or communities were exposed to pollution, for others it’s elevating their particular environmental cause over others, as the claim, “Environmental justice is climate justice.” It might be federal direction of local urban planning, more funding for mass transit and bicycles or promoting “green jobs.”
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said he was troubled because he didn’t see enough minorities at Yellowstone National Park, so apparently “environmental justice” also means subsidies for travel budgets to visit Wyoming. (Audio clip)
And if the low-income and minority communities shoulder an unacceptable burden of pollution, of course it’s business that causes that pollution. “Environmental justice” then becomes a bludgeon with which to beat up the private sector.
In the hour or so of the afternoon discussions we listened to Wednesday, we heard class- and race-based pleas for federal money and programs, along with unsubtle accusations of racism. One attendee railed that after Hurricane Katrina, “The recovery process has been so racist in design, in every area,” and, “They’re trying to kill us.”
This isn’t necessarily surprising rhetoric to have come the “environmental justice” crowd, but it’s alarming to hear at the White House.
Essentially, “environmental justice” is the foot in the door for pretty much every power grab, land grab and manipulative policy that tramples your personal choice that the government can come up with.
Which is what I’ve been saying about the “global warming” issue back when the EPA declared carbon to be a “dangerous pollutant.” We are, as it is often said, carbon based life-forms. Everything we do emits carbon. So if the government can regulate carbon, they can regulate every single aspect of our lives.
Meanwhile, the national debt is out of control, our southern border is a sieve, and the TSA is arbitrarily groping the genitals of air travels (when they’re not making nude body scans of them).
Tags: environmental justice, environmentalism, epa
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