The Effects Of Pollution On Low-Income Community

Everyone get affected by pollution. Low – income minority groups, such as blacks and latinos, are affected by pollution because toxic waste tend to be placed in their communities. Not only that, pollution creating factories also tend to be placed in the same communities. Environmental racism is something that effect black, low-income people in particular, the different effects the toxins have on communities, and started a long time ago but continues to this day.
But yet, the white rich people is not being affected by the toxics in their communities. The text states that ‘’separate residential limits or districts for white and negro residents’’. This shows that U.S. minorities have been placed in separate areas for a long time as noted in the article.”he found blacks overrepresented in areas with toxins, hazardous waste storage facilities and sewage treatment plants’’.That’s a shame because why are they putting all of this toxic waste in …show more content…
‘’Hazardous waste landfills were disproportion located in minority and low-income communities’’. This shows that waste sites that were out of proportion was only placed in poor communities with low-income. ‘’Asthma prevalence in the u.s is significantly higher in minority and low-income populations than in the general population’’. That mean that in low-income and poor communities had asthma more than other communities. ‘’Heat waves and drought are increasingly in rhythm in every major continent including our own’’. We are being affected by even more things other than the racism that goes around.
In conclusion, It seem if they trying to get rid of us. Environmental racism is something that effect black income people, low-income, minority, blacks, white,latino, asians, philippines, latin americans, factory owners. Environmental racism is something that effect black income people.The all came from factories and started a long time ago and still continuing