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| Study: White People Responsible for Blacks' and Latinos' Higher Exposure to Pollution |
| 2019-03-13 |
| [Breitbart] A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences claims that white people contribute more to pollution than black and Latino people, but the latter suffer from it more than the white polluters. "The air that Americans breathe isn’t equal," USA Today says in its report on the study. "Blacks and Hispanics disproportionately breathe air that’s been polluted by non-Hispanic whites, according to a study," USA Today says. "This new research quantifies for the first time the racial gap between who causes air pollution ‐ and who breathes it." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 Yer welcome down here B. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-03-13 21:04 |
| #9 Give me a cabin up in Blue Ridge, 5 acres and a steel gate. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-03-13 16:03 |
| #8 they tend too leave their safe spaces and head towards places like Buckhead, Alpharetta < Johns CReek, East cobb county ga. around Atlanta. I'm sure every major city is the same. ButI'm a white male so I guess that's my fault too. |
| Posted by: chris 2019-03-13 14:09 |
| #7 Since blacks and latinos appaprently have no agency or free will, we should probably take away their right to vote or to have autonomy in any area of life. We should also place them all in areas where they can do as little harm as possible to themselves and others. We could call these areas ghe--, er barr, er "safe spaces". Yeah, "safe spaces". Safe spaces far away from the rest of us. For their own good, of course. |
| Posted by: charger 2019-03-13 13:47 |
| #6 I live in former military housing. Some of it is privately owned. 20% is county owned. I've had some good neighbors and bad ones in both types of housing. There are in fact wealthy people who are perfectly willing to dump their crud any old where. We have a bunch of polluted wells in farm country, from careless handling of manure from industrial-scale operations. This is a character issue, not a racial one. Enough ranting for one day. |
| Posted by: mom 2019-03-13 13:33 |
| #5 Back in the 70s, Uncle Sam was the largest slumlord in America, as any base housing could attest to. That was even in an environment in which you were expected to turn it back over they way you found it. See - PCS inspections. When the base reductions hit in the 80s, the idea and practice of turning over the housing to local government for low income housing was nicked because the habitats failed to meet local building standards. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-03-13 12:17 |
| #4 Keeping clean is expensive. The rich have more choice of where to live. The poor have fewer choices, and often that means living in areas downstream or downwind from pollution. The poor do not have the front money to buy property, therefore are usually renters. If you rent, and it's not yours, you don't take as good care of it. When you're discouraged, you tend to let things go to pot around you. It can become a way of life. This has everything to do with human nature and economics, and zero to do with race. Sometimes poverty has to do with other people's choices (factory closings and blockbusting, for example). Sometimes poverty is a function of fecklessness (I can see an example in my very white family). Urban poor tend to be black. Rural poor tend to be white. The issue is poverty, not race. |
| Posted by: mom 2019-03-13 10:33 |
| #3 Filed under "Everything is Problematic" |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-03-13 09:52 |
| #2 Getting 'polluted' does hold some attraction. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-03-13 08:29 |
| #1 DOA, junk science. |
| Posted by: Dale 2019-03-13 08:27 |