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Why are enviros less diverse than wildlife they're saving?
nature.org — Is there a culture of racism in the environmental movement? Or are the only people who care about conservation white males? It turns out that African-Americans are at least as supportive of environmental issues as middle-class whites, and Hispanics exceed both groups in their levels of support.
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- Dokument, on 12/19/2007, -2/+6I had to read that title like 4 times. Also that man is not African-American fyi.
- ZenMojo, on 12/19/2007, -1/+2He's an Asian-African-American. :P
- Mononuclear, on 12/19/2007, -2/+12You just contradicted your title in the description...
- KillaJazzBass, on 12/19/2007, -8/+3Yeah sure, peace loving tree hugging go green clean fuel prius driving hippies. Are Racist.
Buried - newbis, on 12/19/2007, -2/+11Caring about the environment is directly correlated to how much money you make. It's a luxury good.
So my point is, because white males tend to make more money, this article does not surprise me in any way. If you can pay for a hybrid you are more likely to own a hybrid.- nick111, on 12/20/2007, -1/+0Have you ever actually been to a Greenpeace of Friends of The Earth Meeting?
I think you'll find you're talking nonsense there.
- nick111, on 12/20/2007, -1/+0Have you ever actually been to a Greenpeace of Friends of The Earth Meeting?
- FishHammer, on 12/19/2007, -3/+9because most crazy hippies are white. can you imagine a group of self respecting black people picketing a zoo for putting a santa hat on a whale? (i'm white by the way)
- 1337Einstein, on 12/19/2007, -1/+3No, but not because they're black, the term "self-respecting" was what really stood out to me.
- phybere, on 12/19/2007, -2/+7I suspect it has a lot to do with income and education
- PropCulture, on 12/19/2007, -1/+2That guy could be African-American... if he was born in Africa and gained American citizenship.
- ZenMojo, on 12/19/2007, -0/+2Going by my experience from watching conservation television shows, non-whites are more represented in nature shows these days than whites. It's just the white guys are the ones explaining to us what the non-whites are doing all the time.
Kind of like football. Tons of black folks but most of the quarterbacks are white. I'll leave the judgment and assumptions up to others without my own experiences as a minority creating a bias. - diggstown, on 12/19/2007, -1/+2Do you really need to read the article to know the answer to this? It's all about socio-economics. Think people, think.
- URnotheonly1, on 12/19/2007, -1/+1didn't notice to many black soviets in Russia either
- SwornPacifist, on 12/19/2007, -0/+3If anybody cared to RTFA, he says that while more Hispanics care about the environment than blacks or whites combined, the _people working in the conservation field_ are mostly white
- nick111, on 12/20/2007, -1/+1In my experience (and I do have it) the majority of active members of Green organisations are female. The socio-economic grouping would be lower middle class - or more accurately, broke but educated.
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