Writing II KMWF

The increasing severity of global warming makes human society more and more unstable, the temperature rises, and climate disasters have made people’s ordinary life an unprecedented impact. In both articles, it is stated that the flooding has forced most people to evacuate from some coastal areas, and they are forced to sell their houses because they are unwilling to bear the economic damage after the disaster. In addition to the individual who can afford it, most of them think that this is something that will happen sooner or later. Even though the government has promulgated a series of solutions and disaster insurance, etc., there are still people who are unwilling to take this high risk. Clearly, both articles focus on one salient point, the incomparable importance of race to housing. The article “New Yorks Invisible Climate Migrants” by Sophie Kasakove mentions “They are some of the only places where homeownership is attainable for middle-class families, particularly for black families: In 2017, in Canarsie and neighboring Flatlands, 62 percent of the population identified as black and the homeownership rate was 57 percent, the highest of any neighborhood in Brooklyn. Homeowners in areas affected by Sandy were foreclosed upon at twice the rate of those in similar neighborhoods elsewhere in the U.S., according to an Urban Institute study published in April. And the rate was higher in areas where a majority of residents were nonwhite.” In this case, the choice of black families has become particularly difficult, and the government’s policies have not been able to help them, and they have also become victims of profit. Another article makes a similar claim: “the erosion of rights, the politics of nonraciality beneath which, as David Theo Goldberg has argued, lurk more sinister shadows of the racial everyday and persistent institutional and structural racisms — and racial capitalism. Global warming and its consequences for the peoples of the South is a political question and must be understood outside of the limits of “climate change” and in the context of the inequalities produced by racial capital.” They are well aware that this is a historic political issue, but no one wants to change it, especially from the aftermath of climate change, where we can see a lot of disputes of interests, and many of these black communities are neglected and underdeveloped , and the government just let them take care of themselves. Obviously, these are some of the darkest conditions of this age.