Prior to the takeover of environmentalism by Earth Day's overt communist malcontents (1) it was devoted to clean water and neighborhoods in cities, where the poorest lived.

To get attention and money from other wealthy elites, it pivoted to rural rivers and streams and minorities were marginalized in the rush to control government that would control conservation and "endangered" species(2) and clean water for people of colors stopped being important.

A new study shows it is still not important, not for the $3 billion environmental juggernaut or the politicians they lobby. The analysis found that lakes near where white people live are 300% more likely to be sampled than those within communities of color, and the difference was 700% greater for white people waters if the monitoring had been in existence for 15 years.

For the analysis, the authors combined data from LAGOS-US with data from the U.S. Census to classify lakes according to the communities around them based on race and ethnicity.


Percentage of lakes sampled for water clarity within a region according to nearby community (a) race (people of color = “POC”) or (b) ethnicity (non-Hispanic = “NH”) designation. The y axis is zoomed in to 25% instead of 100% for visual clarity.

The casual racism and anti-science fundamentalist culture of Boomer Environmentalism is slowly dying off, Gen Z certainly asks why President Clinton banned nuclear energy in 1994, preventing America from doing for energy what it did for cell phones in the last 30 years, and there are no easy answers for that, but Senator Harry Reid is dead, John Kerry may be hopefully finally done polluting American health policies, and President Clinton is busy trying to rebuild his reputation.

Vice-President Harris is from California, she knows what a mistake it was to drive nuclear energy out of the state, she was there when brownouts occurred due to solar replacements and the state had to quietly get permission from EPA to violate emissions standard to run enough natural gas to prevent total blackouts, so she will likely be as critical thinking as most of Gen X when it comes to wondering why we let nuclear power get mothballed.(3)

Let's hope it won't take 30 years for minority communities to stop being taken for granted and 'in the bag' votes. Nearly 80% of America's richest counties, overwhelmingly white, telling minorities they are the party of the poor has long seemed odd.

NOTES:

(1) No, really, they have so successfully ret-conned it that it sounds conspiratorial, the same way modern progressives now claim Fascists and Nazis were right-wing while those political parties acted exactly like modern social authoritarians in the US northeast, right down to the anti-Semitism. Hitler was a socialist, a eugenicist who told the public only the state could protect them from religious and corporate bad actors - just like progressives say now. He used government to suppress individual rights and the candidate progressives are cheering not only got no votes, she has declared that media companies need to be regulated. That's 1930s Germany stuff, and the New York Times endorses it, just like they endorsed (his "anti-Semitism was not so violent or genuine as it sounded") Hitler, and even told readers in 1939 that Poland started World War II by attacking Germany, a 10-year pattern of endorsing him. By 1941, when they excerpted Mein Kampf, they had changed their ways.



Unless modern progressives now contend communism was right-wing. They probably do, though Earth Day Boomers still living would be horrified at the idea their Watermelon Environmentalism was anything other than what they intended.

(2) That overwhelmingly are not endangered at all but are instead often used to penalize private landowners. There is a reason 70% of endangered species listings happened under two presidents, and they happened long after actual endangered species were already protected.

(3) Or not. Politics is funny that way. Boomers are still protesting Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania and it's a battleground state. She already alienated voters by choosing the Minnesota Governor as her running mate because he didn't have the Jewish last name of the superior Pennsylvania guy, she may have to give Pittsburgh and Philadelphia senior citizens a gift and say nuclear is dead again.