National Geographic says fireworks are RAAACIST!

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“Scientists found that vulnerable people and communities of color are disproportionately exposed to air pollution from firework celebrations,” blared the headline from National Geographic.

Communities of color here in New York disproportionately shoot off firecrackers on July 4th. Perhaps that’s why they are affected more, but I’m not a scientist.

Science writer, Madeline Stone wrote the article which says scientists used [unscientific] crowdsourced data from home air quality monitors to claim vulnerable people and communities of color are disproportionately exposed to air pollution from firework celebrations.

There doesn’t seem to be any controls in that collection of ‘scientific’ data.

Not everyone is at equal risk, Stone says. Black communities are most vulnerable. In other words, fireworks are RAAACIST!

She cites one study of California that shows there’s more pollution in densely populated areas. That is where many blacks live. The authors also showed that fireworks’ smoke may be creating an additional—albeit short-term—health risk for communities already disproportionately burdened by air pollution.

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Casca
3 years ago

We stopped buying and reading National Geographic when Murdock bought it! It is nothing more than Globalists Propaganda rag espousing the coll0psae of Industrial Civilizations, Destruction of Western Christian Civilization. National Geographic is is just part of Leftist Communist “Conspiracy to overthrow our Republic. One an American Institution it has been subverted and perverted/destroyed just like the Boy and Gil Scouts, Christian founded Ivy League Schools, Sears and all American Brands!

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Europa and the Pirate Twins
3 years ago

Will this be the last fourth with Old Glory and fireworks? (rhetorical)