Statistics
African Americans have a 40% higher risk of developing this breathing condition.
What is Asthma?
Richmond, CA sits about a dozen miles outside of this city.
What is San Francisco, CA?
This state is notated as the birthplace of the Environmental Justice movement.
What is North Carolina?
Fenceline communities of low-income and people of color, often found in hotspots of chemical pollution.
What are Sacrifice Zones?
__________ , not a lack of evidence, are the main reason little nation-wide progress has been made.
What are American Conservatives?
Black people are __ times as likely to die from asthma as opposed to white people.
What is 3?
North Richmond is surrounded by ___ toxic sites.
What is 350?
The United Church of Christ's Commission For Racial Justice report came out in this year.
What is 1987?
A movement to solve instances where certain communities are disproportionately affected by human harm to the environment
What is Environmental Justice?
This group can continue to ignore this issue because it doesn't affect them, for now.
What are White people?
African Americans are 30% more likely to die from ____ than white people.
What is heart disease?
Residents in Point Richmond freaked out after toxic airs reached them due to this event.
What is a chemical fire?
This city has more non-white Hispanics living in communities with uncontrolled toxic waste sites than any other metropolitan area.
What is Los Angeles?
Deliberate efforts which result in communities of color carrying the brunt of impacts from climate change and pollution (extends also to the result of other intentional efforts to keep people of color in unstable situations)
This study by Aaron M. McCright and Riley E. Dunlap found that White men were more likely to be climate change deniers.
What is "Cool Dudes"?
Over one millions African Americans face a "cancer risk above EPA's level of concern" due to this.
What is unclean air?
Residents of Richmond are in the 99th percentile for this condition.
What is Asthma?
_________ of the total population in the United States resided in communities with uncontrolled toxic waste sites.
What is more than half?
Environmental racism negatively affects _______
What are Black and White people?
___ out of 10 CEO's of the largest greenhouse-gas-emitting companies are white.
What is 9?
_____ is surrounded by 350 toxic sites.
What is North Richmond?
Only 3% of the population in Richmond, CA are this race.
What are White people?
This city in Tennessee had the most toxic waste sites in the United States.
What is Memphis?
The progression of global warming can be attributed to this group of people.
What are White Conservative Americans?
70% of Latinx Americans and ___ of Black Americans are "concerned" or "alarmed" by climate change.
What is 57%?