Economically marginalized people bear disproportionate air pollution and asthma burdens

Evidence

In addition to temperature increases, CO2 and other toxins severely degrade air quality, especially in the poorer areas of urban settlements where economically marginalized people are forced to live near coal powered plants or toxin-belching incinerators, or huge trucking plazas of the shipping industry. Asthma rates are nearly three times the national average in the city of Detroit, for example, especially among poor African American children. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 213

Categorization

• XREF: Direct evidence for the environmental racism thread shared across all four polyad courses. — connects to: White flight, redlining, and factory relocation created Detroit’s brownfield-laden food desert — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1477; Environmental visibility and remediation access are distributed unequally by race, class, and globalization — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 175; Environmental harm from U.S. bases falls disproportionately on marginal groups and poor countries
• SHARE: Detroit asthma triple rate stat is a solid one-line anchor for anyone teaching environmental justice.

Broader Connections

• Environmental harm from U.S. bases falls disproportionately on marginal groups and poor countries #exemplifies (0.82)
• Environmental visibility and remediation access are distributed unequally by race, class, and globalization #expands (0.78) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 175