Socioeconomic Class
The minorities that live in low-income communities have to deal with lack of green space because it is now seen as an additional purchase in most communities. For those that are low-income typically are located in the city and have to face the dire consequences of local businesses. The businesses can release fossil fuels, chemicals, and other toxic wastes that have negative impacts on the health of many people. Studies have shown that pregnant women prexpose their children to these air conditions, which may result in being born with asthma or other birth defects. Therefore, by not having the environmental rights to have businesses properly dispose of their chemicals, it exposes the community to an increase in preventable …show more content…
An example of a community that had to live in a brutal environment, are those that lived in New York by Love Canal. Love Canal was a waste dump site that contaminated the local neighborhood since the businesses did not properly dispose of the chemicals that they were releasing. As the years progressed, city officials then allowed for a public school to be built on top of the waste site. As students were then attending school, parents were complaining that their children were coming home with skin irritation, eye irritation, and that they started to develop a cough. Although the dumping happened in 1978, the “new residents, attracted by promises of cleaned-up land and affordable homes, say in lawsuits that they are being sickened by the same buried chemicals from the disaster in the Niagara Falls neighborhood in the 1970s”(New York Post). The citizens of Love Canal that are now living 35 years after the fact, are still facing the consequences from the past, which shows that environmental impacts isn’t an easy fix. Usually environmental effects have a lasting effect on the health of the people that lived through the heinous living …show more content…
Low income communities have affordable housing to accommodate its residents, but they are under renovated and are not meeting the criteria of new health standards. I have a relative that was raised in a household that had asbestos and lead in the walls, which may have been a possible link to her mental disorder. Recent studies further researched the correlation of “learning disabilities and developmental disorders [and how it] may be attributable to environmental factors”(Landrigan 27). The study conducted by Children’s Health believes that children whom have been pre exposed before age 5 will receive no treatment due to “brain injury or [lack of ability to] restore lost intelligence in those children who have already been exposed to lead” (Landrigan 38). Although this is still undergoing the trial stage, they were able to apply statistics to the best of their knowledge to make a
The minorities that live in low-income communities have to deal with lack of green space because it is now seen as an additional purchase in most communities. For those that are low-income typically are located in the city and have to face the dire consequences of local businesses. The businesses can release fossil fuels, chemicals, and other toxic wastes that have negative impacts on the health of many people. Studies have shown that pregnant women prexpose their children to these air conditions, which may result in being born with asthma or other birth defects. Therefore, by not having the environmental rights to have businesses properly dispose of their chemicals, it exposes the community to an increase in preventable …show more content…
An example of a community that had to live in a brutal environment, are those that lived in New York by Love Canal. Love Canal was a waste dump site that contaminated the local neighborhood since the businesses did not properly dispose of the chemicals that they were releasing. As the years progressed, city officials then allowed for a public school to be built on top of the waste site. As students were then attending school, parents were complaining that their children were coming home with skin irritation, eye irritation, and that they started to develop a cough. Although the dumping happened in 1978, the “new residents, attracted by promises of cleaned-up land and affordable homes, say in lawsuits that they are being sickened by the same buried chemicals from the disaster in the Niagara Falls neighborhood in the 1970s”(New York Post). The citizens of Love Canal that are now living 35 years after the fact, are still facing the consequences from the past, which shows that environmental impacts isn’t an easy fix. Usually environmental effects have a lasting effect on the health of the people that lived through the heinous living …show more content…
Low income communities have affordable housing to accommodate its residents, but they are under renovated and are not meeting the criteria of new health standards. I have a relative that was raised in a household that had asbestos and lead in the walls, which may have been a possible link to her mental disorder. Recent studies further researched the correlation of “learning disabilities and developmental disorders [and how it] may be attributable to environmental factors”(Landrigan 27). The study conducted by Children’s Health believes that children whom have been pre exposed before age 5 will receive no treatment due to “brain injury or [lack of ability to] restore lost intelligence in those children who have already been exposed to lead” (Landrigan 38). Although this is still undergoing the trial stage, they were able to apply statistics to the best of their knowledge to make a