First published at 17:05 UTC on March 14th, 2019.
Video taken from Fox News. - Article places blame for air pollution on white people; Tucker Carlson reacts. - Whites are mainly to blame for air pollution, but blacks and Hispanics bear the burden, says a new study.
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Video taken from Fox News. - Article places blame for air pollution on white people; Tucker Carlson reacts. - Whites are mainly to blame for air pollution, but blacks and Hispanics bear the burden, says a new study.
Smokestacks near an oil refinery are seen in front of the Utah State Capitol on Dec. 10, 2018. A new study released March 11 says African-Americans and Hispanics breathe in far more deadly air pollution than they are responsible for making.
Air pollution, the leading environmental cause of death worldwide, reflects the stark racial inequalities of American life. In the United States, the problem is disproportionately caused by the white majority, but its consequences are suffered mainly by blacks and Hispanics.
That is the finding of a new study, about five years in the making, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. The results illuminate the fault lines of the lethal environmental danger, which is inseparable from the threat of climate change and responsible for more deaths globally each year than automobile accidents.
The research confirms with new statistical certainty the determination that racial and ethnic minorities are acutely vulnerable to air pollution because of the neighborhoods in which they live. But it also introduces a largely unstudied element into the analysis, examining who is responsible for the pollutants inhaled disproportionately by blacks and Hispanics. The answer, according to a nationwide team of engineers and economists, is white people.
The researchers argue that white people are disproportionately to blame for the consumption of goods and services generating dangerous particles known as “fine particulate matter,” which gets lodged deep in the lungs, causing inflammation that triggers strokes and heart attacks, as well as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. However, this segment of the population doesn’t endure an equivalent share of the consequences.
source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/12/whites-are-mainly-blame-air-pollution-blacks-hispanics-bear-burden-says-new-study/??noredirect=on
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