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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1791186" data-attributes="member: 1">And then there&#039;s this article from the New Yorker. Not sure how it fits in here but it does mention California&#039;s climate change law at the end.<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/environmentalisms-racist-history" target="_blank">Environmentalism’s Racist History - New Yorker</a>Some of the awkwardness of environmental politics since the seventies, now even more acute in the age of climate change, is that it lays claim to worldwide problems, but brings to them some of the cultural habits of a much more parochial, and sometimes nastier, movement. Ironically enough, Madison Grant, writing about extinction, was right: the natural world that future generations live in will be the one we create for them. It can only help to acknowledge just how many environmentalist priorities and patterns of thought came from an argument among white people, some of them bigots and racial engineers, about the character and future of a country that they were sure was theirs and expected to keep.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1791186, member: 1"] And then there's this article from the New Yorker. Not sure how it fits in here but it does mention California's climate change law at the end. [B][URL='http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/environmentalisms-racist-history']Environmentalism’s Racist History - New Yorker[/URL][/B] Some of the awkwardness of environmental politics since the seventies, now even more acute in the age of climate change, is that it lays claim to worldwide problems, but brings to them some of the cultural habits of a much more parochial, and sometimes nastier, movement. Ironically enough, Madison Grant, writing about extinction, was right: the natural world that future generations live in will be the one we create for them. It can only help to acknowledge just how many environmentalist priorities and patterns of thought came from an argument among white people, some of them bigots and racial engineers, about the character and future of a country that they were sure was theirs and expected to keep. [/QUOTE]

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