Smoke from Canada wildfires is increasing health risks in Black and poorer U.S. communities
DETROIT – Smoky air from Canada’s wildfires shrouded broad swaths of the U.S. from Minnesota to New York and Kentucky on Wednesday, prompting warnings to stay inside and exacerbating health risks for people already suffering from industrial pollution.
The impacts are particularly hard on poor and minority communities that are more likely to live near polluting plants and have higher rates of asthma. Detroit, a mostly Black city with a poverty rate of about 30 per cent, had some of the worst air quality in the U.S. on Wednesday, prompting the Environmental Protection Agency to warn that “everyone should stay indoors.”
I guess poor White people or Chinese or Himalayans don’t merit special mention other than to be relegated to a 2nd class “othering”.
They must think Blacks need the Great White Weather Girl’s benevolent guidance.
Oh look! The EPA has an excuse to desensitize you to the prospect of a climate lockdown! Once a genie is out of the bottle….
h/t Mauser
