I am a Black Congresswoman with asthma – asthma made worse by police tear gas & growing up in toxic neighborhoods.
— Congresswoman Cori Bush (@RepCori) April 24, 2022
Black children in St. Louis make 10x more visits to the emergency room for asthma than white children every year.
This deadly environmental racism must change.
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A bowl of toxic dust is threatening to poison the air around Salt Lake City, as climate change and rapid population growth shrink Utah’s Great Salt Lake. https://t.co/BWyjW3gATG pic.twitter.com/9Dx6DJrj1r
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 7, 2022
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For #WorldEnvironmentDay, these dramatic photos show life in our warming world—and solutions to address it https://t.co/Ygeg2CJp3D
— National Geographic (@NatGeo) June 5, 2022
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Disabled people ‘systematically ignored’ on climate crisis, says study https://t.co/gH2GmcTRxS
— Guardian Environment (@guardianeco) June 10, 2022
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lol we can all spontaneously combust from that climate change heat or drown from the coastal waters getting too high. But that’s all just fine as long as we don’t make people feel bad or uncomfortable about that fact that it’s all preventable.
— Claude DeBussy (@angryblkhoemo) June 11, 2022
U.S. american culture <<<<<<< https://t.co/R4qM8J6G6k
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UC Davis just stopped graduation because it was so hot, it was unsafe.
— Terry McGlynn (@hormiga) June 10, 2022
Yet one of the many ways in which climate change (and more frequent and more intense periods of extreme heat) is affecting our lives. https://t.co/DM2WmVLDVx
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Thirty years of climate summits: where have they got us? https://t.co/8P3Skawwri
— Guardian Environment (@guardianeco) June 11, 2022