Pollution is racist (Read 917 times)

ren

Pollution is racist
« on: June 08, 2023, 12:31:26 PM »
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wildfire-smoke-health-poor-people-communities-color-black-air-quality-194637812.html

A study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health last year found that certain groups — Blacks, Asians, Hispanics, Latinos and low-income populations — are being exposed to higher levels of dangerous fine particulate air pollution than other groups. Most often these communities are more densely populated, live in closer proximity to pollution-generating facilities and/or have jobs like bus drivers or in agriculture that expose them to the elements more often than others.
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changemyoil66

Re: Pollution is racist
« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2023, 01:09:00 PM »
So China was excluded from this study?

Flapp_Jackson

Re: Pollution is racist
« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2023, 01:21:34 PM »
So China was excluded from this study?

There are 195 countries on the planet.

This "study" includes 1 country and excludes 194 others. 

Guess which one the study is about.
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The research linked 17 years of demographic data with findings on fine particulate
pollution from across the U.S. to reveal stark disparities in air pollution along
racial and economic lines.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw

groveler

Re: Pollution is racist
« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2023, 01:27:21 PM »
That is a joke.
Do you know why there is so much pollution in a city?
Because it is a city.  Everything is in walking distance
at least that is the progressives plan.
Cars mean you can go where you want whenever you want;
that is bad.
All the smart people moved out of the cities.
That is not racist that is survival of the fittest
AKA natural selection read your Darwin directly
not modern media misinterpretation of it.
If you aren't smart enough to figure it out, then it is
not my responsibility to fix your situation.
That is not racist. That is nature.
 :wave:

QUIETShooter

Re: Pollution is racist
« Reply #4 on: June 08, 2023, 01:41:52 PM »
Everything nowadays is racist. 

Even when it's not.

Pretty soon the push will become a shove.  And when the shoving starts....

SHTF.
Sometimes you gotta know when to save your bullets.

Flapp_Jackson

Re: Pollution is racist
« Reply #5 on: June 08, 2023, 01:46:17 PM »
That is a joke.
Do you know why there is so much pollution in a city?
Because it is a city.  Everything is in walking distance
at least that is the progressives plan.
Cars mean you can go where you want whenever you want;
that is bad.
All the smart people moved out of the cities.
That is not racist that is survival of the fittest
AKA natural selection read your Darwin directly
not modern media misinterpretation of it.
If you aren't smart enough to figure it out, then it is
not my responsibility to fix your situation.
That is not racist. That is nature.
 :wave:

Just calling it a city and saying people are being made to walk isn't the whole picture.

Even if everyone living full time in, say, NYC walked or chose public transportation, that doesn't stop tourists from driving through to see the sights, people of means traveling with a paid driver (often paid for by their company), delivery vehicles, people who make a living with their cars (Uber, Lyft, taxis...), and out-of-town commuters who don't have access to public transportation where they live outside the city.  I've read of people driving 2-3 hours a day to commute into NYC just so their family can live in a better location.

Things that contribute to pollution:  Tall buildings that block the wind from recycling the air and moving pollution elsewhere, the "concrete jungle" effect with paved streets and parking lots, concrete sidewalks, and the enormous number of buildings impacts the weather by absorbing heat quickly and releasing it slowly compared to just soil and plants, and so on.  Natural wind breaks can also trap pollution inside the neighboring city which is the case with LA and the mountains to its East.

Those factors have nothing to do with race.  The problems would exist if only Whites lived in these cities.  The supposition that pollution in these places impacts minorities more is purely coincidental because of the make-up of large cities.

I'll bet there are mostly White cities that have the same problems, but they won't make these kinds of studies.  Including them would disprove the thesis.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw