A block-by-block study of San Francisco has revealed that people of color are more likely to live in smoggy conditions than white people — 55% more likely.
And, to add insult to injury, a study out this week has found that that air quality in communities of color and low-income areas is much worse than previously thought.of San Francisco has revealed that people of color are more likely to live in smoggy conditions than white people — 55 percent more likely.
“If you go to communities of color across this country and ask them, ‘What’s the source of the environmental problems?’ they can point you to every one: the highway, the chemical plants, the refineries, the legacy pollution left over from decades ago, in the houses, in the air, in the water, in the playgrounds,” Robert D. Bullard, a professor who studies environmental racism at Texas Southern University, toldin April 2021.
The WHO makes clear that “small particulate pollution has health impacts even at very low concentrations — indeed no threshold has been identified below which no damage to health is observed.” Knowing this, the WHO wants the world to work toward having the lowest concentrations of particulate matter in the air possible.published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America found that exposure to PM 2.
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