Posted on 03/11/2019 10:03:53 PM PDT by mdittmar
WASHINGTON (AP) — African-Americans and Hispanics breathe in far more deadly air pollution than they are responsible for making, a new study said.
A study looked at who is exposed to fine particle pollution — responsible for about 100,000 American deaths a year — and how much different races are responsible for the pollution based on their buying, driving and living habits.
Scientists calculate that Hispanics on average breathe in 63 percent more of the pollution that leads to heart and breathing deaths than they make. For African-Americans the figure is 56 percent, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
On the other hand, non-Hispanic whites on average are exposed to 17 percent less air pollution than they make.
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[[The idea of “Environmental Justice” is now being elevated to science]]
Exactly, I was just commenting that minorities have failed to get reparations so far and can’t get rich quick from it- so now they are likely going to sue society for ‘endangering their health’
“...fine particle pollution — responsible for about 100,000 American deaths a year —”
There outta be a law.../s
Damn discrimination! Blacks and Hispanics must be forced to pollute more to narrow the pollution breathing apartheid!
They gotta stop huffin the glue!!
Pollution is racist?!
The solution to global warming is simple.
Kill all the white people. Problem solved.
White people just can’t seem to do anything right.
Your “polluters” are the tax base; careful there, Leftists.
Minorities SMOKE more cigarettes than whites, a source of air pollution and lung pollution these idiots left out, the emphasis being on the LEFT.
Minorities SMOKE more cigarettes than whites, a source of air pollution and lung pollution these idiots left out, the emphasis being on the LEFT.
Hey AP! Trot out some facts that = 100,000 Americans die each year from ‘fine particle pollution’ (FPA). While you’re at it, how about defining what FPA is...
You’re not supposed to say anything truthful against AP’s racist BS!
More Bull SHT from the left wing A holes making up false science. What a waste of time.
Just more of the Marxist Media’s insane race-hatred propaganda. Now, even the atmosphere is racist, and it’s all Whitey’s fault. Of course, not mentioned is that economic productivity and industrial output produce jobs, which in turn produce taxes, which are then seized by governments to pay the non-productive with unearned entitlement benefits in exchange for their votes, which are intended to ensure their sustained hold on power. They aren’t the victims of human productivity, but rather the voluntary human slavery of Entitlement Socialism.
Industry provides jobs to workers. The workers are the mechanism of production for industry. It is the workers who generate the pollution.
Along with the workers, those who choose to sit out the production phase breathe the pollution generated by the workers. Whom did the study target, the workers or the feeders? This is so Ayn Rand.
They are poisoning themselves.
Evil white folk and their businesses poisoning black and Hispanic, men and women soon to be families and then the children the icing on the cake and the reason for an uprising and new laws compensation and protecting the victims of the evil white masters
I wouldn’t live in such a toxic country..?
What makes it racist is white people are not
breathing their equal share.
You beat me to it. My first thought was that Kools don’t help the lungs much.
“...White people just can’t seem to do anything right....”
Yeah, sigh... I guess after discovering and harnessing electricity, inventing the steam engine, inventing cement and concrete to build better housing, inventing internal combustion engines, inventing aircraft, inventing refrigeration, discovering cures for polio, tuberculosis, and a host of other diseases, putting people on the Moon, inventing the computer and the Internet, inventing better machines for farming to feed millions of people, etc., etc., etc., you’d think we’d get SOMETHING right....
Sigh...
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