Study Finds Racial Gap Between Who Causes Air Pollution And Who Breathes It

[Elderberry]

NPR by Jonathan Lambert 3/11/2019

Pollution, much like wealth, is not distributed equally in the United States.

Scientists and policymakers have long known that black and Hispanic Americans tend to live in neighborhoods with more pollution of all kinds, than white Americans. And because pollution exposure can cause a range of health problems, this inequity could be a driver of unequal health outcomes across the U.S.

A study published Monday in the journal PNAS adds a new twist to the pollution problem by looking at consumption. While we tend to think of factories or power plants as the source of pollution, those polluters wouldn't exist without consumer demand for their products.

The researchers found that air pollution is disproportionately caused by white Americans' consumption of goods and services, but disproportionately inhaled by black and Hispanic Americans.

"This paper is exciting and really quite novel," says Anjum Hajat, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington who was not involved in the study. "Inequity in exposure to air pollution is well documented, but this study brings in the consumption angle."

Hajat says the study reveals an inherent unfairness: "If you're contributing less to the problem, why do you have to suffer more from it?"

The study, led by engineering professor Jason Hill at the University of Minnesota, took over six years to complete. According to the paper's first author Christopher Tessum, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington, the idea stemmed from a question at a conference.

Tessum presented earlier research on how blacks and Hispanics are often more exposed to air pollutants than whites. After he finished, someone asked "if it would be possible to connect exposure to air pollution to who is doing the actual consuming," says Tessum. According to Tessum, no one had ever tried to answer that question.

It's a big, complicated issue, but studying it could address a fundamental question: Are those who produce pollution, through their consumption of goods and services, fairly sharing in the costs?

What kind of data could even answer such a multifaceted question? Let's break it down:

For any given area in the U.S., the researchers would need to know how polluted the air was, what communities were exposed to pollution, and the health effects of that level of exposure.

More: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/03/11/702348935/study-finds-racial-gap-between-who-causes-air-pollution-and-who-breathes-it

[Smokin Joe]

I reckon if you look for something hard enough, you can find a way to find it.

[Wingnut]

A new study?  Hell, it must be true then. 

[GtHawk]

Wait.........so Blacks and Hispanics don't purchase consumer goods? Blacks and Hispanics don't buy luxury goods? They sure as hell do where I live! And actually I would  say that many of them contribute more to pollution because the cars they drive are older and in dis-repair so they cause disproportionately more pollution, also they live closer to sources of pollution because that is where they work and can afford to work. What's next in the socialist ideal, we subsidize them even more so they can drive newer cars and live in better neighborhoods they haven't earned all the backs of those that have?
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Just more bullshiite blaming that nasty, repressive, greedy White person who didn't earn anything, just got magically acquired  by dint of the lack of pigmentation. Why is it that the truth is that the people that actually do get things, seemingly magically, are those given it solely by dint of their pigmentation?

[Restored]

Wow, even pollution hates minorities in Trump's Amerikkka.

[goatprairie]

I reckon if you look for something hard enough, you can find a way to find it.

Right now I would bet there are hundreds/thousands of SJWs wracking their brains trying to discover new ways to accuse whites of racism.
But of course, now even denying that you are a horrible racist is absolute proof that you are, indeed, a horrible white racist constantly doing racist things to minorities and the odd woman.

[rangerrebew]

Good Grief: Add Air Pollution To the Growing List Of Things That Are Racist

March 14, 2019| by Donn Marten

The death of the mainstream media is one of the great underlying themes of the post-Obama era as every ‘news’ organization in the land has been exposed as fraudulent as made evident by their devotion to race-baiting and promoting conspiracy theories to take down a duly elected president.

With RussiaGate now on life support as the political left continues to lose faith in their savior Robert Mueller, the focus has swung back to fomenting racial unrest in a transparent effort to pander to those black voters who didn’t turn out in sufficient numbers for Hillary Clinton.

With socialism ascendant and the Democrat base determined to make racial and gender identity as the top requirement for their eventual nominee, the media is dutifully churning out propaganda to exploit growing racial divisions or in the words of Saul Alinsky, “to rub raw the sores of discontent” in order to gain political advantage.

https://downtrend.com/donn-marten/good-grief-add-air-pollution-to-the-growing-list-of-things-that-are-racist/

[rangerrebew]

New Study Blames Caucasians for Exposing Minorities to Higher Levels of Pollutants
Simon Daily
March 14, 2019


A new study claims that white people are to blame for the number of pollutants minorities take in.  The study claims that since white people on average are more affluent, they, therefore, create more waste. Minorities, who by that logic on average make less, have a higher exposure rate due to where they live.

“Blacks and Hispanics disproportionately breathe air that’s been polluted by non-Hispanic whites, according to a study. This new research quantifies for the first time the racial gap between who causes air pollution – and who breathes it.

“Pollution is disproportionately caused by whites, but disproportionately inhaled by black and Hispanic minorities,” the study said.

https://thepatriotchronicles.com/news-for-you/new-study-blames-caucasians-for-exposing-minorities-to-higher-levels-of-pollutants/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:1431720&utm_campaign=Trump%20Fights%20Fire%20with%20Fire%20Against%20DNC%20Head%20Honchos%20-%20Teaches%20Them%20a%20Lesson%20They%20Won%27t%20Soon%20Forget

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