I admit, I have been critical of the heroic Van Jones in the past, for picking unnecessarily on us friends of polar bears.  But I certainly understand the urban underprivileged perspective more clearly, thanks to this NR video, which passingly momentarily refers to polar-bear-love.

It seems to me that environmentalists of all ages, of all capabilities, are most certainly NOT discriminating against poor urban communities.  But, until lately, we have not known that living-conditions issues of those communities are plainly true local environmental issues as well.

My guess (and hope) is that young environmentalist activists, at urban campuses and in urban-centered offices of environmentalist groups, will more and more be recognizing cooperation with neighborhood groups in under-privileged urban areas to be a serious and respectable enterprise.

Everyone should have un-garbagey parks, full of trees and flowers, after all, for starters -- to say nothing of wholesome air to breathe.

And polar bears are by no means the exclusive precious treasure of rich white people.  Polar bears, and walruses, and penguins, etc., should surely give as much joy to children in the South Bronx, as to anyone else.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

So, those whose main concern is environmental justice should continue to fight for it and have my support.  I would hope that those of us who fight for polar bears have theirs.