The way a person experiences extreme heat is at least partially linked to race and class, research shows.
Heat waves are scorching the U.K. and Europe, while 60 million Americans are bound for temperatures above 100 degrees this week.
Everyone is sweating it — just not equally. The way a person experiences extreme heat is at least partially linked to race, class and what neighborhood they can afford to live in, research shows. For three-quarters of the country’s counties above a certain size, the poorest neighborhoods and those with higher shares of people of color were “significantly hotter than the richest” and more white areas, University of California, San Diego researchers said in an article published last year in the journal Earth’s Future.
These heat disparities have to do with landscapes and city planning, but also flow from the continuing consequences of racist housing policies formally outlawed half a century ago. “Redlining” cordoned neighborhoods of color away from financial services like government-backed mortgages. The 1968 Fair Housing Act banned the practice, though studies show it persists today.
A separate 2021 study traced the link between redlining and present-day air pollution. Black and Latino people, more often than their white counterparts, share zip codes with industrial areas belching emissions, researchers wrote in the study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology Letters.
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