Detroit locals have been breathing high particulate matter and other toxins “on a consistent basis,” one resident says. As Canadian wildfires make the city's air quality among the world’s worst, an already-vulnerable group is exposed to more health risks.
,” said the recent air pollution only illustrates the ways Black communities are made more vulnerable to environmental disasters and climate change through policy and infrastructure decisions.
For example, Black people are more likely to live where there is greater exposure to air pollution as a result of residential segregation, according“Systemic racism defines whether or not you have the excess cash to have an air filter in your home,” Singer said. “If you have less access to health care, if you grow up in a polluted environment, if you don’t have the economic freedom to take time off work, then when a wildfire happens, you’re more vulnerable.
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