Disadvantaged communities in the U.S. are enduring the worst consequences of the climate crisis, as extreme weather conditions continue to exacerbate existing social and racial inequalities, a new study has found. The vulnerability of communities to global heating — and an onslaught of floods and fires that have swept the nation — is converging “with a matrix of systemic injustices: income inequality, racism, immigration status, gender, rural underdevelopment, and a history of genocide of Native peoples,” according to the report, published on Tuesday by the London-based Environmental Justice Foundation…
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