Thursday, January 19, 2006

World Ends, Minorities Hit Hardest

Literally. You can't make this crap up.
Relatively, Blacks are environmental Good Samaritans. Per capita, we emit approximately 20 percent less carbon dioxide than Whites – well below 2020 targets set by the U.S. Climate Stewardship Act.
Is this why they're so much better at basketball? Because they require less oxygen to perform the same task?

3 comments:

Muztan said...

20%, eh? Sounds like we need to recruit more of them for space and deep sea exploration.

I wonder if GM's been been selling them Negro-Edition Escalades that put out reduced emissions? Or maybe all their gold jewelry and teeth reacts with the C02 somehow...

Engicon said...

From the article, "Critics say the result of these policies could be catastrophic. “By mid-century, we’re looking at the entire Antarctic ice shelf melting,” Miller says. “That could send warmer water throughout… which will have a freezing effect in the Northern European countries."
Sweet, freeze whitey!

TimDido said...

That's the stupidest figure I've ever seen - and that's why I poked fun at it. Of course Blacks emit less than Whites. They are more likely to live in urban areas, where there is more mass transit available. They are more likely to be poor and less mobile. They are probably in higher proportion in the Southern US, where more temperate conditions allow for less fuel usage. And yet the author somehow imputes this to a real statistical disparity between blacks and whites. A more meaningful comparison would be blacks and whites of the same income levels, living in approximately the same area. I'm guessing the number was derived without the preceding factors taken into account.

But why question a figure unless it supports your thesis? Like the supposed correlation between CO2 and "climate change"?