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This echoes the redlining era of American history, when certain neighborhoods were designated as ineligible for federal housing assistance because of a high concentration of non-white residents.
Redlining is a discriminatory practice in which financial services are withheld from neighborhoods that have significant numbers of racial and ethnic minorities. [2] Redlining has been most prominent in the United States , and has mostly been directed against African Americans , as well as Mexican Americans in the Southwestern United States . [ 3 ]
Many climate change impacts have been observed in the first decades of the 21st century, with 2024 the warmest on record at +1.60 °C (2.88 °F) since regular tracking began in 1850. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] Additional warming will increase these impacts and can trigger tipping points , such as melting all of the Greenland ice sheet . [ 21 ]
We know all too well the systemic roadblocks people of color, and particularly Black Americans, face in realizing the dream of homeownership. | Op-ed by T’wina Nobles and Maureen Fife
The concept of digital redlining is an extension of the practice of redlining in housing discrimination, [2] [3] a historical legal practice in the United States and Canada dating back to the 1930s where red lines were drawn on maps to indicate poor and primarily black neighborhoods that were deemed unsuitable for loans or further development ...
Commentary by a south Tower homeowner and activist.
Some climate change effects: wildfire caused by heat and dryness, bleached coral caused by ocean acidification and heating, environmental migration caused by desertification, and coastal flooding caused by storms and sea level rise. Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies. Changes to the climate system include an overall ...
[28] Under this principle, the initiator of the potentially hazardous activity is charged with demonstrating the activity's safety. Environmental justice activists also emphasize the need for waste reduction in general, which would act to reduce the overall burden, as well as reduce methane emissions which in turn reduce climate change. [25]