Many of those peoples want more say in how to address the environmental challenges that we all face.
and they should, they know how to help, so they should be allowed to help
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- Oct 2020
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www.unep.org www.unep.org
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indigenous peoples have been excluded from ancestral lands across the planet in the name of protecting nature
but statistics show that indigenous people living in these places actually helps the land
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For example, deforestation rates inside tenured indigenous forests were 2-3 times lower than outside in Bolivia, Brazil and Colombia from 2000-2012.
A statistic to support the claim from the paragraph before
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The extra income more than offsets the restrictions on animal herding and increases the resilience of their land.
So you can't use finances as an excuse to destroy the environment
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Canada to meet its goal of conserving 17 per cent of its land by 2020
That really is not a lot at all
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boreal forest
boreal forests are defined as forests growing in high-latitude environments where freezing temperatures occur for 6 to 8 months and in which trees are capable of reaching a minimum height of 5 m and a canopy cover of 10%.
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185 people across 16 countries were killed defending their land,
Why don't we ever hear about this? In what ways were they killed?
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But it also makes them targets. Communities who stand up against powerful economic and political interests remain under intense pressure in many parts of the world.
These high dollar companies become their enemies, bc they stand in their way
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They defend their lands against illegal encroachments and destructive exploitation, from mega-dams across their rivers to logging and mining in their forests.
If only every country would protect their land
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Their home areas across 70 countries from the Arctic to the South Pacific
It's interesting to me that there are so many different indigenous groups in 70 different countries, but I've never even heard the names of most of these groups.
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and lay claim to far more.
I don't really understand how they lay claim to it, but they don't own it
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which means guarding and protecting the environment in order to respect the ancestors and secure the future.
It reminds me of the quote "we don't inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children"
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- Sep 2020
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www.theroot.com www.theroot.com
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earn roughly 13 percent more than the median wage
A statistic to prove the previously stated point.
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And despite the attacks on the green economy from big polluters and their allies, green jobs are still one of the best ways to create pathways out of poverty and into the middle class.
Not only is it good for the environment, but it's good for the economy. This claim helps to win over individuals who maybe don't care as much about the environment as they do money.
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we have to be vigilant about making sure that workers in the coal and oil industries aren't left to pay the price.
This is an interesting point that I had never really thought about. We can't just leave the workers in these industries to figure things out whenever they decline. We have to make sure that there are jobs to fill those vacancies.
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If we get serious about energy independence, we can transition more Americans into jobs they're proud of.
Appeals to the readers emotions. I also just really like this sentence, because who doesn't want a job they can be proud of?
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A single 250-megawatt wind farm puts 1,000 people to work.
A specific example of how jobs will be created to support their claim
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We need to make sure that people of color are a part of the business community and workforce building these new systems.
This reminds me of the readings from the first week when we learned all about what environmental justice is and about how in order to resolve climate issues we need to put the people who are most often adversely affected by them in a position of decision making power
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Mark Davis, who started the first African-American-owned solar-manufacturing company
Shows us the solution to the problem by showing us a specific case in which it has worked
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African Americans living in Los Angeles are more than twice as likely to die during a heat wave as other residents of the city. That's because cities develop "heat islands," which are created by an abundance of concrete and asphalt.
Another statistic to prove the authors point
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1 in 6, compared with 1 in 10 nationwide
Compares the statistic for African American kids to the overall statistic. The author doesn't just leave it at the fat that rates are higher for African American kids, but gives us a reference of how much higher.
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Sixty-eight percent of African Americans live within 30 miles of a coal plant —
Statistic appeals through data (logos) appeals to the readers logic
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last year's Superstorm Sandy,
another storm most people have heard of
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Hurricane Katrina showed us that neighborhoods with the fewest resources have a harder time escaping, surviving and recovering from natural disasters.
The author's evidence to support the claim in the sentence prior.
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climate change should be at or near the top of our political agenda,
The claim the author is trying to prove
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President Barack Obama's remarks on the issue in his State of the Union address and inaugural speech weren't what made you cheer.
Everyone knows who President Barack Obama is, so this could serve to draw the readers attention
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nding a job, keeping the lights and heat on, and guarding the health and safety of your kids are your priorities — and what you want your political leaders to prioritize, too.
Appeals to the readers emotion(pathos)
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www.vogue.com www.vogue.com
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“intersectional environmentalism,”
reminds me of the term inter-sectional feminism
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During Hurricane Katrina, the worst damage was found in “predominantly Black neighborhoods, yet the relief was far slower and inadequate compared with that provided in predominantly white and higher-income neighborhoods, despite those being less impacted.”
This serves as evidence for the previous claim that the impacts of climate change "are not borne equally by all populations."
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“non-whites had 1.28 times higher burden” and that Black residents “had 1.54 higher burden than did the overall population” of exposure to particulate matter.
This helps to validate the author's claim by presenting the reader with actual statistics.
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Every time I took a deep breath outside, I thought about Eric Garner’s final few words, echoed recently by George Floyd: “I can’t breathe.” In my environmental science classes—where I was often met with confusion when I tried my best to advocate for the protection of people of color—I was shocked to find the very clear data that communities of color have been most exposed to poor air quality and environmental conditions. I realized my work could directly contribute to the fight against racism.
This takes the phrase "I can't breathe" and uses it as a bridge to explain yet another way communities of color are being oppressed other than police brutality.
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Why was I entitled to clean air, water, and abundant nature
I feel like these are things we should all be entitled to, and if we're not there's a problem.
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Why Every Environmentalist Should Be Anti-Racist
She chose to word this as a statement instead of a question. She could have said Why should every environmentalist be anti racist, but wording it as a statement, I feel like, leaves less room for argument and makes the author seem more confident in her claim.
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who believe in preserving the planet for generations to come
Serves as a very general definition for environmentalists. She goes on to question the fact that people who are so forward-thinking, are nit forward-thinking on other important racial issues.
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Why is fighting for my humanity considered an optional or special add-on to climate justice?
The author specifically refers to her own humanity, not just black lives in general. This makes the issue more personal and uses pathos to invoke more emotion of an emotional response in the mind of the reader.
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. His body lay there uncovered for hours as the community tried to piece together what happened without communication from authorities.
"His body lay there uncovered for hours" Those few words channel the readers emotion and are so blunt. It reads almost like a punch to the gut.
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when Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, was shot at least six times by a police officer before dying in the street just a few miles from my house.
The shooting of Michael Brown is a pretty well known thing. it was covered heavily in the media and has been brought back up recently as a part of the Black Lives Matter movement
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