Posted on 04/29/2021 9:57:24 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Across America, people of color are exposed to more air pollution than whites from industry, vehicles, construction and many other sources, a new study has found.
Using government air pollution and census data, researchers found that disproportionate numbers of non-white people were exposed to potentially hazardous fine particle pollution from nearly all major U.S. emission sources, regardless of where they live or how much money they make.
The study, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, also found that Blacks were the only group disproportionately exposed to each of the pollution sources examined.
Researchers found that on average Black, Hispanic and Asian people were exposed to higher than average levels of fine particle pollution, while white people were subjected to lower than average levels.
“It doesn’t matter how poor, it doesn’t matter how wealthy, the racial disparities exist for all African-Americans and other people of color,” said Paul Mohai, a professor of environmental justice at the University of Michigan who was not involved with the study. He’s researched racial disparities in the distribution of hazardous waste dumps, industrial facilities and air pollution at schools — and why and how these disparities exist. …
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All People have color. Just variations. Don’t know of an
invisible human existing but sometimes things happen and
I wonder who did it.
Then they should quit hanging around democrats.....
“Have you forgotten doublethink? […] The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things but over men.”Orwell based O’Brien on people who actually do think like that.
— O’Brien, 1984
Yes, the article is a perfect example of modern woke science.
What a marvel is the science that shows this to be true!
I’m sort of pinkish in color.
liberals love flogging dead horses.
Hmmm.... Maybe they should change their diet?
so now, once and for all,
minorities/women&children hardest hit/most effected in everything in life, real or imagined, and it's ALL the fault of the evil whiteman. OK???
now... PLEASE STOP!
So move!
Sniff sniff smells like ASS. Press.💩
Simple solution...
Stop breathing...
This is one of those “no win” environmental gigs.
The air everywhere is so much cleaner than 50 yrs ago when I was a kid.
But it can NEVER be “clean enough” for the green left.
Riiiiiight. Air pollution actively avoids honkies, but focuses on non-honkies. Sure. It is Smart Pollution.
And here we thought burning wood in our wood stoves, and evil coal plants were to blame. Both things that are not typically done by “POC”.
Is there any way these people do not suffer far worse than anyone else?!
Rd later.
Oh, BS.
Pollution does not seek out the only POC in a white neighborhood. POC are not pollution magnets.
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