Academics Discover Lack of Wildlife in Cities Is Racist
If you pay academics enough, they can find racism anywhere. They have even managed to prove that racism causes wild animals to avoid minority neighborhoods:
“Systemic racism alters the demography of urban wildlife populations in ways that generally limit population sizes and negatively affect their chances of persistence,” write the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg’s Chloé Schmidt and Colin J. Garroway in a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In a study that examined 39 terrestrial vertebrate species in 268 urban locations across the United States, the researchers found “generally consistent patterns of reduced genetic diversity and decreased connectivity in neighborhoods with fewer White residents.”
The lack of urban wildlife was allegedly caused by iniquitous white people escaping to the suburbs to avoid crime several generations ago. Looks like wild animals are white adjacent and don’t like crime either. Or maybe they have other reasons to prefer not to live in densely populated cities.
The lack of wild animal equity has inflicted mental illness upon sacred BIPOCs:
Areas with less diversity could also be having negative effects on both the mental and physical health of the people who live in such ‘deprived’ neighborhoods.
They mean animal diversity, not the diversity that characterizes American inner cities, which wild animals are wise to avoid.
On a tip from Franco.
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