Top Activist: Climate Change Making Racism Worse | National Review Online
by KATHERINE TIMPF August 17, 2015
According to Naomi Klein, this is “clear.”
According to social activist and best-selling author Naomi Klein, climate change isn’t just destroying our planet — it’s making racism worse, too.
“You see that in Australia where the treatment of migrants is a profound moral crisis,” she said, according to a piece published in The Guardian.
“It’s clear that as sea levels rise that this mean streak and open racism is going to become more extreme – climate change is an accelerant to all those other issues,” she continued.
Yes — “clear.” The idea that racism rises with the sea is just so “clear” that no further evidence or explanation is needed. Climate change is making people more mean, and that is just a fact.
If you’re dying to know more, you’re in luck: Klein has written plenty of books about climate change ...
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422661/climate-racism-worse-naomi-klein
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