'Hotlanta' is even more sweltering in
these neighborhoods due to a racist
20th-century policy
Posted By: Ribicon, 9/19/2021 10:01:33 PM
Atlanta—On a warm September afternoon, Mona Scott sat on the front porch while her home baked like an oven. As she ran a frozen water bottle across her forehead and arms, Scott told CNN her air conditioning broke 10 days earlier and had not yet been fixed. "The windows are painted shut," Scott said. "We come outside at night to sleep because it's too hot inside."(Snip)And these health risks are not distributed equally. During extreme heat events, a few city blocks can mean the difference between a manageable 80-degree afternoon or a sweltering, 100-degree sweat fest. The staggering temperature difference is due in large part
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'Hotlanta' is even more sweltering in
these neighborhoods due to a racist
20th-century policy 22 replies
these neighborhoods due to a racist
20th-century policy 22 replies
Atlanta—On a warm September afternoon, Mona Scott sat on the front porch while her home baked like an oven. As she ran a frozen water bottle across her forehead and arms, Scott told CNN her air conditioning broke 10 days earlier and had not yet been fixed.
"The windows are painted shut," Scott said. "We come outside at night to sleep because it's too hot inside."(Snip)And these health risks are not distributed equally. During extreme heat events, a few city blocks can mean the difference between a manageable 80-degree afternoon or a sweltering, 100-degree sweat fest.
The staggering temperature difference is due in large part
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This article is even more absurd than the one below. Here, we learn that black neighborhoods are hotter than nearby White neighborhoods owing to systemic racism. In the future, people who write such things will be thrown in prison.