Posted on 05/26/2021 4:56:34 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In nearly every major city in the U.S., people of color are exposed to more extreme urban heat than white people, a new study found.
Using government temperature and census data, researchers examined the distribution of heat islands – parts of cities with higher average temperatures than the surrounding areas. The study, published Tuesday, found that during the summer of 2017 in nearly all large urban areas, the average non-white person lived in a census tract with higher heat island intensity.
Glenn Sheriff, a co-author of the study and environmental economics professor at Arizona State University, was surprised to find such pervasive disparities: It was seen in all but six of the country’s 175 largest urban areas.
“I expected to see that people of color had a higher exposure to this heat island effect in maybe a majority of cities,” Sheriff said. “But what we found was that something like 97% of the cities had these disparities.”
In addition to finding disparities between people of color and whites, Sheriff and his colleagues also found that the average person of color is exposed to a higher heat island intensity than the average person living below poverty.
That factor is race, according to Sacoby Wilson, an environmental health professor at the University of Maryland who was not part of the research team. He’s researched pollution for decades and has found similar racial inequities in air pollution and water contamination.
Wilson said racism is an underlying driver of these disparities, leading to discriminatory housing policies and zoning laws, for example. Society can invest in planting trees, creating greenspace and tear down highways, he said, “but we’ve got to dismantle racism, man.”
“Like people say you’ve got to plant more trees,” he said. “Yes, that’s part of it, but the root cause is racism.”
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People of color congregate in islands of concrete, glass, and steel... Complain that the heat is difficult to deal with.
But they still congregate there.
Such bs.
I volunteered for a charity one week that planted trees in an inner-city park.
Within the month, the plants were all stolen or just pulled down.
Can’t play basketball in a field.
Wait...I thought heat islands didn’t exist.
We used to...LOL! What do we want? HEAT ISLAND JUSTICE! When do we ant it? WE WANT IT NOW!
POC in San Diego are disparately impacted by the nice weather. Perhaps there are so many “white supremacists” because wypipo are repeatedly told that white males seem to be the only group on the planet who are not worst hit by everything
This is just common sense. Cities, particularly inner cities, are primarily concrete and asphalt. Suburbs have more dirt and shade trees. Not to mention there are more places that winds cannot cool.
To argue it is racism is like arguing that swimming pools are racist because blacks lack the bouyancy of whites.
Or sell enough of drugs
Stupid headline. Oh no, heat islands are coming after POC!
The horror!!!
It makes it sound like they are exposed against thier will to an outside force as opposed to choosing to live in cities.
all my black roommate’s loved that **** and set the thermostat to 95
The problem is that self segregated black people are not able to cope with civilized city life.
Heat is merely a correlation, not a causation
People who are serious about fighting racism know there is only one solution—kill all the white people.
That is their end game.
and white people are more exposed to grass allergies- such bigotry.
And they don’t know how to swim either... reparations!! Riots!! You think the media is racist enough yet...
(In my best Sam Kinison voice): If you don’t like it hot don’t live where it’s so hot!
Oh oh OHHHH!
ROFLOL.
We should have guessed this one was coming.
Unless you are albino, all people are people of color..
That an “academic” did a study on this shows the sheer utter waste of time “academic” study is.
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