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Schell et al. explain that in the article The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments “We provide a transdisciplinary synthesis on how social in-equities – and specifically, systemic racism – serve as principle drivers of ecological and evolutionary processes by shaping landscape heterogeneity” This work is crucial to know about in light of the way public policy is written, even in the US Congress the connection between systemic racism and climate change are directly correlated. This is not to dismiss racism as a real problem, but we will see the connection that Schell et al. and others perceive to be the case. A definition is required here “Ecology is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment” is a definition given by the Ecological Society of America. So the focus is broader and narrower than Climate Change. Schell reports that “urban biodiversity, and plant diversity in particular, is positively correlated with neighbor-hood wealth” and that “Affluent urban residential neighborhoods generally have greater vegetation cover, canopy cover, and plant diversity” Therefore, it is outright stated that wealthy neighborhoods have a greater connection with the bio-system necessary for a healthy world. Therefore, planting more vegetation in urban areas is urgent, or providing the poor (mostly race and ethnic) with the means (usually through wealth redistribution) would satisfy politicians, but would that solve the problems of greater ecological needs?
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