'We are in a severe drought, and yet rich people’s lawns will remain as green as ever,' writes fidmart85.
Uranga reports that “only a quarter have some kind of shade or rain shelter, and only half have a seat for those waiting.”Uranga’s story is emblematic of how not everyone experiences the effects of climate change the same way. No matter how you slice it, Latinxs are disproportionately bearing the brunt of it.
You don’t need a crystal ball to tell you that, barring immediate action, things will only get worse. All you have to do is follow the news.On Tuesday, the World Meteorological Organization published a multi-agency report that warned that we areLet me repeat that. Uncharted territory of destruction.
“Floods, droughts, heatwaves, extreme storms and wildfires are going from bad to worse, breaking records with alarming frequency. Heatwaves in Europe. Colossal floods in Pakistan. Prolonged and severe droughts in China, the Horn of Africa and the United States. There is nothing natural about the new scale of these disasters. They are the price of humanity’s fossil fuel addiction,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement.
, a group of researchers determined that global warming contributed between 8 and 10 inches of floodwater when Hurricane Harvey struck Houston five years ago, and that Latinx households accounted for 48% of properties that flooded because of climate change.