Climate change is no longer just an environmental issue. It’s now an issue of race, according to global warming activists and policy makers. “It is critical our community be an integral and active part of the debate because African-Americans are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change economically, socially and through our health and well-being,” House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., said July 29.
As a substantive matter, poorer people are of course more vulnerable to all sorts of economic shocks than are wealthier people–including shocks caused massive regulation on behalf of environmental causes.