But, remember, this is All About Science”
California Climate Change Board Obsessed With ‘Racial Equity’
California spends billions annually on a fool’s errand: trying to unilaterally change the Earth’s temperature. “Global warming”—now called “climate change” to explain both heat waves and cold snaps—has been used by the Left for decades now to implement its radical agenda, primarily the redistribution of wealth.
It should come as no surprise, therefore, that California’s climate change fighting agency, the California Air Resources Board, has managed to include another top leftist priority into its agenda: ”racial equity.”
The program is so conspicuous that it has caught the attention of the Civil Rights Division of President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon this week informed California’s Environmental Protection Agency that it is commencing an investigation into its and CARB’s discriminatory hiring practices, which emphasize “equity,” aka affirmative action.
Funny how these uber-white Democrats always think that “minorities” cannot survive without the helping hand of Government. That they are incapable of living otherwise. That every minor Bad Thing is a monstrosity for “BIPOC’s”. Seems, I don’t know, rather racist.
CARB was created by Gov. Ronald Reagan in the 1960s. It was implemented to fight the severe smog experienced in large California cities, primarily Los Angeles. It sought to control the emissions causing the smog, primarily coming from cars.
And it worked well. Then the climate cult took it over and implemented their hardcore Modern Socialist agenda.
The Left then hijacked CARB and turned it into one no longer focused on clean air, but “developing programs and actions to fight climate change.” Its website boasts that by “adopting innovative solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, California has pioneered a range of effective approaches that have set the standard for effective air and climate programs for the nation, and the world.”
These are the same folks who are forcing Californian’s into EVs. People who were never elected. And do not seem to drive EVs themselves.
CARB’s secondary mission, according to its website, is to create “racial equity” and “social change.” It has developed what it calls its “Racial Equity Lens,” which is “rooted in the philosophy of cultural humility, a process of self-reflection and discovery to understand oneself and then others in order to build honest and trustworthy relationships.” It was implemented in order to comply with Newsom’s executive order on racial equity in government.
It is quite ironic that the board that has driven up electricity prices to the highest in the continental U.S., which has a disproportionate impact on minority groups that can least afford it, claims to be concerned about racial equity. I doubt this is the CARB Reagan envisioned when he first sought to curb smog.
What does reducing air pollution have to do with racial equity and social change? In other words, this whole thing is not about science.
The DOJ is now accusing the board of utilizing “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (“DEI” aka affirmative action) in its hiring practices. In Dhillon’s notice of investigation, she cites the board’s “Racial Equity Framework” designed to “shift the culture at CARB from one of white privilege to an actively anti-racist and more inclusive culture that values and affirms Black lives.”
Read the whole thing.
When what you do is useless, pointless, and only exists to satisfy political activists, it doesn’t really matter who you hire to pretend to do it. If you can hire a different activist demographic, you get twice the credit.