Climate alarmists are constantly warning that the world will soon become unlivable and the planet will be destroyed. As the old joke goes, the world is going to end and minorities will be hardest hit.
And so, we get the Donors of Color Network, a group that is trying to push climate-concerned donors to give at least 30% of their donations to groups run by leaders who are black, indigenous, or other people of color. It seems that racial obsessions, in the form of “equity,” take priority even when it comes to carbon emissions.
The CEO of GreenLatinos, an environmental nonprofit group, referred to this race-based donation pledge as the equivalent of the NFL’s Rooney rule, an archaic and ineffective affirmative action requirement that forced NFL teams to interview token minority candidates. Of course, such a pledge benefits groups such as GreenLatinos by pressuring climate change donors to search out groups based on the skin color of their leaders.
The pledge has secured $100 million annually for these groups that are “dedicated to environmental justice.” The report on the pledge doesn’t detail what any of these groups do, but it doesn’t really matter. The whole point of the fund is to funnel money to groups based on the race of the people who run them. “Climate justice” and “environmental racism” are the orders of the day because the only thing that seems to matter now is race.
Much of the climate alarmism we see has less to do with greenhouse emissions and more to do with reordering the economy, as we see with environmentalists fighting against nuclear energy and pushing for the Green New Deal. As liberal activism turns into one social justice-infused blob, race and racism now take center stage, in yet another evolution of an unserious movement.
The supposed urgency of the “climate crisis” has been undermined by much of the climate movement’s goals and tactics, and this is just another one to add to the list. Affirmative action for climate activism groups won’t lower emissions or solve our supposedly impending crisis, but at least upper-class liberal donors will feel good about their anti-racism.
