Author: Matt Gilligan / Source: did you know?
Inequality is rampant in our society, even down to the quality of air we breathe. It’s been common knowledge for a long time that minorities in the U.S. tend to live in neighborhoods that are more polluted than white Americans and that leads to a disparity in health outcomes along racial lines in this country.
A study that was recently published sheds new light on this problem in terms of consumption. It shows that air pollution in this country is disproportionately caused by white Americans’ consumption of services and goods, but the pollution is disproportionately inhaled by black and Hispanic Americans.
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