A lesson from the TPNW
Posted: 31st October 2022
Posted on October 31, 2022 by beyondnuclearinternational
A Fossil-Fuel Non-ProliferationTreaty will save lives
By Ira Helfand and Marjaneh Moini
We can almost always tell how sick a patient may be before seeing them just by looking at their address. Every day we treat patients who are desperately ill with a number of medical conditions all with the same root cause: environmental racism. Historical discriminatory housing policies have trapped non-white and low income communities in overpolluted neighborhoods. Neighborhoods in previously redlined zones have nearly twice as many oil wells, breathe dirtier air and have much less green space.