Hey so @Volkswagen knowingly cheated emissions tests on fancy diesel cars. It's bad for the planet. But it's especially bad for poor poc.
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I'm not talking about one or two cheating, dirty diesel cars.
@Volkswagen produced 11 MILLION of these. Nearly 200,000 sold in California. -
There's a dope interactive map that I just wrote about that illustrates
@Volkswagen's harm. Just look at LA here!http://bit.ly/1MnGbue -
Time and again, we see poc are left to bear the burden of emissions and resulting climate change. Story of our lives. And our deaths.
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@aurabogado What do you mean by this? How are PoCs acutely affected by emissions? I know it's the case for like, waste disposal standards. -
Right, I hear that—a lot of this remains invisible to people who don't live with it. Will send you some links to illustrate.
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I'll be sending links about LA. Take the City of Commerce, nearly all latino, with incredible pollution: http://grist.org/cities/polluting-industries-took-over-this-california-city-now-residents-are-taking-it-back/ …
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Or take LA"s vast oil wells. They're devastating for black and brown folks here: http://grist.org/cities/the-sad-sickening-truth-about-south-l-a-s-oil-wells/ …
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@aurabogado@KirinDave See also: Salton Sea, Shitpipe Beach for great examples of environmental injustice/racism
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