The city of Seattle is offering a six-figure salary for a Tree Equity Initiative Manager. If you show a bias towards a cedar tree over a spruce, your arborism isn’t welcome and this job isn’t for you.
The position earns up to $60.83 an hour and allows activists to undo environmental injustices disproportionately impacting “communities of color.” We’re supposed to pretend this is due to racism.
The Tree Equity movement is part of a tapestry of contrived social justice causes pursued by Progressive activists seeking hero status. It fits under the umbrella cause of “environmental racism.” This movement attempts to more evenly distribute trees to underserved communities. The lack of tree canopies and green space in black, Asian and Latino-majority communities is due to institutional racism, according to progressives.
In Seattle, city leadership can’t merely plant more trees in areas where they’re lacking. They have to make a political point. Meanwhile, they push away qualified applicants.
There’s obviously nothing wrong with planting more trees and offering green space where little exists. This benefits communities, regardless of the race or ethnicity of the neighbors. It’s a worthwhile cause, even if it’s less important than addressing the homelessness and drug crisis crushing some Seattle neighborhoods.
But this reeks of unbearable virtue signaling. Indeed, as part of the position, as is the case for all city employees, the Tree Equity Initiative Manager “must play a role in ending institutional and structural racism,” as defined by the city of Seattle.
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