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Houston's Unrestrained Capitalism Made Harvey Worse.

It's run by a Black person who is a democratic...but it survives and flourishes. The last Mayor Mizz Parker ran fortune 500 companies out of town reducing her tax base. So if Houston is suffering...It is at the hands of wanna be socialists...because socialism sucks.
So what if Houston's mayor is a Democrat?
The problem is corporate influence over civic functions like zoning regulations that are properly the role of government.
 
Dr. Robert Bullard was in the process of evacuating his Houston home when he offered these thoughts to Democracy Now! earlier this week:

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/8/29/dr_robert_bullard_houston_s_unrestrained

"Harvey and the aftermath, the flooding of Houston and the surrounding areas, it’s of biblical proportions.

"This is a nightmare.

"And the images that you see on television and you hear the voices of people who have been just totally destroyed. And this is a situation where I think it’s telling us that we have to change.
We have to change the way we do business and the way that we as humans interact with our environment..."

" Houston is actually—was a catastrophe waiting to happen, given the fact you have unrestrained capitalism, no zoning, laissez-faire regulations when it comes to control of the very industries that have created lots of problems when it comes to greenhouse gases and other industrial pollution.

"The impact that basically has been ignored for many years.

"And so the fact that—it is a disaster, but it is a very predictable disaster."

Capitalism makes massive fortunes for a few parasites by socializing the cost of its negative externalities on the poorest, most vulnerable communities, like those lining "Cancer Alley" in Houston.

It's time the rich paid their fair share of clean-up costs.
And here I thought it was an act of God!
 
What do you say to his allegation that Houston, the fourth largest city in the US, has no zoning regulations?

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/8/29/hurricane_harvey_zip_code_race_determine

DR. ROBERT BULLARD: Well, the best predictor of health and well-being in our society, and including Houston, is ZIP Code. You tell me your ZIP Code, I can tell you how healthy you are. And one of the best predictors of environmental vulnerability is ZIP Code and race. And all communities are not created equal. Houston’s people of color communities historically have borne the burden for environmental pollution, and also the impact of flooding and other kinds of natural and man-made disasters..."

"Houston is the fourth-largest city, but it’s the only city that does not have zoning. And what it has is—communities of color and poor communities have been unofficially zoned as compatible with pollution. And we say that is—we have a name for it. We call that environmental injustice and environmental racism. It is that plain and it’s just that simple."
So. the golf course that was flooded. Those $5 million homes were owned by "Poor People"?
 
So. the golf course that was flooded. Those $5 million homes were owned by "Poor People"?
Rich people can afford health and property insurance. Rich people can afford to relocate before the water gets inside their $5 million homes. Rich people don't build their $5 million house inside "sacrifice zones."

Poor people have none of the above advantages in Houston or anywhere else capitalists get rich by poisoning a local community.

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/8/29/hurricane_harvey_zip_code_race_determine


"DR. ROBERT BULLARD: Well, the best predictor of health and well-being in our society, and including Houston, is ZIP Code. You tell me your ZIP Code, I can tell you how healthy you are. And one of the best predictors of environmental vulnerability is ZIP Code and race. And all communities are not created equal. Houston’s people of color communities historically have borne the burden for environmental pollution, and also the impact of flooding and other kinds of natural and man-made disasters.

"When we talk about the impact of sea level rise and we talk about the impacts of climate change, you’re talking about a disproportionate impact on communities of color, on poor people, on people who don’t have health insurance, communities that don’t have access to food and grocery stores.

"So you talk about mapping vulnerability and mapping this disaster and the impact, not just the loss of housing and loss of jobs, but also the impact of having pollution and these spills, and the oil and chemicals going into the water, and who is living closest to these hazards?

"Historically, even before Harvey, before this storm, before this flood, people of color in Houston bore a disproportionate burden of having to live next to, surrounded by, these very dangerous chemicals.

"And so you talk about these chemical hotspots, these sacrifice zones. Those are the communities that are people of color."
 
Scientists can be bought
Who do you believe, NASA or Trump?:confused:

"Scientific Consensus

"Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are very likely due to human activities, and most of the leading scientific organizations worldwide have issued public statements endorsing this position.

"Click here for a partial list of these public statements and related resources."

https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
 
Nope need money for a nice research building push the myth of man made global warming
https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

"Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal.
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

"The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely (greater than 95 percent probability) to be the result of human activity since the mid-20th century and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented over decades to millennia.1"

"Powerful Hurricane Irma could be next weather disaster"
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/31/us/hurricane-irma-forecast-weather/index.htm
 

Constitutional Sheepdog

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https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

"Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal.
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

"The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely (greater than 95 percent probability) to be the result of human activity since the mid-20th century and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented over decades to millennia.1"

"Powerful Hurricane Irma could be next weather disaster"
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/31/us/hurricane-irma-forecast-weather/index.htm
Are you saying we've never had a hurricane before the religion of global warming came along?
 

Constitutional Sheepdog

][][][%er!!!!!!!
Who do you believe, NASA or Trump?:confused:

"Scientific Consensus

"Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are very likely due to human activities, and most of the leading scientific organizations worldwide have issued public statements endorsing this position.

"Click here for a partial list of these public statements and related resources."

https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
I can tell you I don't believe people who push an agenda that was created to control other people.
 
I can tell you I don't believe people who push an agenda that was created to control other people.
Do you believe capitalism has such an agenda?
Because it does, and it's getting close to closing the deal.

"Economist Branko Horvat stated: '... it is now well known that capitalist development leads to the concentration of capital, employment and power. It is somewhat less known that it leads to the almost complete destruction of economic freedom.'"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_capitalism#Democracy_and_freedoms
 
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