Global Warming is Racist
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The world’s poorest people are also taking the brunt of global warming’s negative effects.
Although the average African produces 13 times less harmful emissions than their North American counterparts, the African ecosystem is suffering far greater damage. Droughts and floods, as well as shifting ecosystems throughout the continent, threaten the welfare of both the people and wildlife of Africa.
Scientists warn that rising temperatures could cause massive extinctions for wildlife, including lions, elephants, and mountain gorillas. The climate change has also been blamed as the alleged cause of droughts which have left nearly 1.8 million Africans without a sufficient supply of clean water. The water shortage has caused outbreaks of malaria and cholera, as well as an increase in poverty.
Experts say most African nations are ill-prepared to fight global warming, although improved land management and natural gas use in place of coal could both help. University of Cape Town climatology specialist Professor Bruce Hewitson says that many African countries do not have the cash to meet the 2005 Kyoto Protocol emission reduction targets.
“The major challenge for developing countries is that they need more money and resources to help them fight the potentially devastating effects of climate change,” Hewitson said.
Africa’s ecological future largely depends on the actions of the world’s largest polluters, including the US, UK, India and China. If these countries don’t act to reduce their emissions of harmful pollutants, Africa likely faces devastating climate problems in the future.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN panel which recently won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to disseminate knowledge about man-made climate change, has warned that greenhouse gas emissions will continue to rise over the next decade, further threatening Africa’s already precarious future.
Only time will tell if the rest of the world will fight to improve their emissions and help end the scourge of global warming, or sacrifice Africa through inaction.
Source: Reuters
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November 24th, 2007 at 1:40 am[...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerptThe world’s poorest people are also taking the brunt of global warming’s negative effects. Although the average African produces 13 times less harmful emissions than their North American counterparts, the African ecosystem is suffering … [...]
March 4th, 2008 at 6:37 am
Sure, and it hurts. Iam from India . It is worrying that we will face acute water shortages in near future. It is equally worrying that continents of Asia and Africa are most likely to put up with strange diseases of epidemic size.
Our governments are unfortunately not as receptive to such concerns. Need to build a strong case out there.
January 9th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
I don’t really beleive that global warming is racist, that isn’t technically possible. CO2 wasters in the west aren’t targeting African’s because they are black, they aren’t targeting them at all. They are merely being ignorant of their own stupidity. Thanks for reading,
Jackie
March 4th, 2009 at 1:53 am
soooo rascist
March 10th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
oh hell no!
March 10th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
that is not right but this is fake
March 13th, 2009 at 9:56 am
nice
May 30th, 2009 at 4:11 am
Imagine the stupidity that revolves around the head of the author of this junk piece of journalism about junk science.The IPCC,they are nothing but a group of sociologists that are looking for the ultimate money grab.The earth has been cooling for over 8 years now,idiot.How do we stop leftist assholes from saying everything is racist…..I know.
May 30th, 2009 at 4:14 am
So, let me get this straight, non-ensouled inanimate physical processes are capable of distinguishing the race of people and modifying their behaviour accordingly?
Good god man, what a moronic title. I know what you’re trying to do, but you just come off as looking like a twat.
May 30th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Global Warming is TRUE. You guys can say whatever :racist or not. We must do something so stop layin’ around and get moving. IT’S NOT JUST FOR THE PLANET, IT’S FOR YOU’RE GRAND-CHILDREN AND YOU’RE OWN KIDS…THEIR LIVES ARE AT STAKE!!!
Have a nice day !! :P
May 31st, 2009 at 2:22 am
Sure. Global Warming happens. So does global cooling, which we have been experiencing since 2002. But human-caused global warming is false.
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Human-caused global warming has been repeatedly FALSIFIED: As CO2 steadily rises, the globe’s temperature continues to decline:
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June 3rd, 2009 at 5:35 am
How is it racist? To say it is racist, is to say that we are purposely ganging up on Africa because we’re racist against Africa. This is not the case put forth in the article. The case put forth is that Africa, due to the structure of the Earth and their inability to have beaten the rest of the world to a place of massive technological advancement, is in a bad situation.
Well, here’s my quasi-racist reply. Africa had its chance, it failed, let them all rot.
June 18th, 2009 at 2:43 am
Its this kind of reasoning and statements like we’re killing the planet that gives amo to global warming deniers, you will not convince anybody with arguments like this, you need to state the facts as they are, trying to get an emotional reaction to win an argument will only turn people of. I accept the scientific consensus of global warm yet every time I hear or read things like this I understand why people would be tempted to reject it, this has nothing to do with the science of global warming. Please just stick to the fact, that way when the deniers trying to dispute them they will look stupid.
February 3rd, 2010 at 10:53 am
yay great news