U. Michigan Receives Nearly $4 Million to Promote Environmental Justice
“no community should be disproportionately harmed by pollution, climate change and other environmental concerns”
How many students could be given ‘free’ tuition for this kind of money?
Campus Reform reports:
Mellon Foundation gives nearly $4 million to promote environmental justice at the University of Michigan
The Mellon Foundation recently gave a nearly $4 million grant to the University of Michigan, which will be used to open an “Environmental Justice + Humanities Hub.”
The “Environmental Justice + Humanities Hub” will “forge connections between students and communities working toward environmental justice.” The new center will also develop a new curriculum, introduce a new undergraduate minor and graduate certificate, and create positions for a new professor and lecturer.
According to The University Record, environmental justice is the idea that “no community should be disproportionately harmed by pollution, climate change and other environmental concerns” and that everyone deserves to enjoy a healthy environment.
Environmental Justice is a phenomenon that has often been addressed from the perspectives of “science, public health and engineering fields.”
However, the addition of partners with humanities training has often been sought after by “communities at the forefront of environmental justice,” the university said.
According to The Mellon Foundation’s website, it is a philanthropic association dedicated to supporting communities through the power of the arts and humanities.
Scott Turner, the Director of Science Programs for the National Association of Scholars told Campus Reform “in general, philanthropic spending constitutes a relatively small proportion of university funding. The bulk of revenues coming into universities these days is from federal sources.”
Turner compared humanities and environmental justice majors to “various grievance studies majors (i.e. Women’s Studies, African-American Studies, etc.) that have proliferated on college campuses over the past couple of decades.
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This tells you a lot. Why would you give millions of dollars to an educational institution for a political cause?
Answer: Because it’s a political institution masquerading as an educational one.
There is a saying in Yiddish that describes this well: aus gevarfene gelt (thrown away money).
That depends what you’re really buying. From the foundation’s point of view this money is not being thrown out, it’s being invested wisely. The program it funds can be expected to turn out the kind of future citizens that the foundation wants, brainwashed not just with the latest leftist platitudes but with the need to constantly change their opinions as the leftist fashion changes. To believe, as O’Brien taught Winston, that two plus two equals whatever the Party says it does at this moment.
Stupid people giving other stupid people money?
I don’t care unless any of it was extracted from my wallet by the IRS.
Let lefty morons piss their own money down black holes.
Which is a nonsensical idea. For as long as civilization has existed, so has pollution, and thus areas that are less desirable than others for habitation. And for almost as long, people have deliberately lived in those less desirable areas, because they’re cheaper.
Look at any city older than the 20th century, and you’ll find that the poor people lived on the east side, because the prevailing wind blows west to east and all the smells end up there, so housing prices were lower.
With the advent of the modern era, and smelly industries having been moved away from residential areas, this phenomenon has been less pronounced, and the inner-city eastern neighborhoods have become desirable, and thus the original residents have been mostly priced out. They’ve gone to areas that are less desirable for modern reasons, such as distance from the city center.
Equalizing the environmental burden across all communities necessarily means that all neighborhoods will become equally desirable or undesirable, and thus housing will be equally expensive everywhere, pricing the poor out of the city altogether. How that is “justice” is beyond me.
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