#Janell Ross, "A cry from the heart," TIME, May10/May 17, 2021. - "They had for the first time in Minneapolis history, convicted a white police officer of murdering a Black man while on duty." "To Black people inside and outside the Minneapolis balloon, a conviction in the death of one Black man is unlikely to tip the scales, to make anyone feel that police accountability and equal justice can now be counted upon." (Police use of force, someone of Chauvin's expert witnesses tried to tell jurors they were not seeing in the video is, one 2019 study found, the sixth most common cause of death for young Black men.)"
#Josiah Bates, "Beyond the verdict," TIME, May 10/May 17, 2021. - "From 2013 to 2020, according to the Mapping Police Violence project, fewer than 20% of police killings resulted in criminal charges against the officer involved; convictions were even more unusual." "As Joseph Margulies, a criminal-justice professor at Cornell University, points out: 'The beginning of the real reforms is to shrink the blue footprint so that the police respond only to those cases that unambiguously demand an armed, uniformed officer.' " " 'What we've consistently asked for and demanded was divestment... from policing, and investment in our communities,' Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, an activist with the Movement for Black Lives, says.' "
#Aryn Baker/Kampi Yo Smaki, "Deep Waters," TIME, April 26/May3, 2021. - "Over the past decade, an unprecedented increase in annual rainfall -- widely attributed to climate change -- has raised the lake [Lake Baringo] by 40 feet (12 m), inundating nearly 22,000 acres and destroying homes." "Some 24 million people -- more than three times the number fleeing armed conflict -- are displaced each year by ecological disasters, such as floods, drought, hurricanes, heat waves, and rising sea levels. according to an October analysis by the Institute for Economics and Peace, a global think thank headquartered in Sydney."
"There comes a point where no amount of infrastructure can hold back the sea, bring back the seasonal rains or cool the global climate." "A 2018 study published in the University of Chicago's 'Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists', predict that climate change will push 1 in 12 Southern and Midwestern residents of the U.S. to move to less affected areas in the Northeast and Northwest over the next 45 years."
"The Green Climate Fund, as it is known, is the world's largest fund dedicated to addressing climate change, but so far, only 20% of global conditions have gone toward adaptation, with the rest going to greenhouse-gas-reduction projects -- despite a stated goal of 50-50 allocation." "Sub-Saharan Africa is already one of the fastest urbanizing regions, with around 450 million city dwellers."
#Justin Worland, "Climate's home front," TIME, April 26/May 3, 2021. - "Annual flood days in the city [suburban Charleston, S.C.] increased 750% from 1980 to 2020, according to data from the National Weather Service, and there are telltale signs all over. In wealthier neighborhoods, historic houses are discretely being elevated at costs that can run to several hundred thousand dollars." "Estimates are that flooding alone already results in $20 billion in property losses annually, and that this figure will grow to more than $30 billion in 30 years. A report from reinsurer Suise Re found that last year, extreme weather caused a total of $105 billion insured losses in North America." 'Last year, a report from Freddie Mac has found that homes in flood-affected parts of Houston sold for 3.1% less than those in other parts of the area, post-Harvey."
#Aneal Ahmed, "Robert Bullard Isn't Done Yet," The Nation, 5 - 17 - 24.2021. - "In 1992, then Senator Al Gore and Representative John Lewis introduced the Environmental Justice Act, which would have mandated that the EPA track environmental justice communities --those that have experienced a disproportionate pollution burden -- and maintain a list of the 100 areas most affected by pollution, while making the process of approving such sites in those communities more transparent."
"There's also the issue of 'legacy pollution,' says Paul Mohai, a professor at the University of Michigan, who has long worked with Bullard on environmental justice. Areas that have a toxic facility tend to attract more industrialization, concentrating the hazard in the same communities for decades on end." "To this day, low-income communities of color are significantly more likely to live near hazardous waste and air pollution. According to the most recent EPA data, Houston ranks in the 84th percentile when it comes to people of color living in proximity to hazardous waste nationwide. (A higher ranking indicates a higher exposure.)"
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