{"id":36755,"date":"2021-06-23T13:18:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T20:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36755"},"modified":"2021-06-23T13:18:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T20:18:10","slug":"fighting-global-warming-requires-an-equity-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36755","title":{"rendered":"FIGHTING GLOBAL WARMING REQUIRES AN EQUITY APPROACH"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by\u00a0Jenny Manrique<\/a><\/span>\u00a0|\u00a0Jun 23, 2021<\/span>\u00a0|\u00a0Other<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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From left to right: Dr. Daniel Swain, Climate Scientist, UCLA\u2019s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; Dr. Kristie L. Ebi, Professor, Center for Health and the Global Environment; Aradhna Tripati, Associate Professor, UCLA\u2019s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Also available in\u00a0Spanish<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By: Jenny Manrique, Ethnic Media Services<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bigger wildfires, more frequent heat waves, longer summers, more intense droughts and warmer seas. Climate change is speeding up, making life harder for Americans, reports the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Experts warn that the best way to address it is not only from scientific models but with policies focused on equity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it comes to climate change, there aren\u2019t effective solutions, unless equity is baked in from the beginning,\u201d said Aradhna E. Tripati, Associate Professor at the UCLA Institute for
\nEnvironment and Sustainability, during a press conference organized by Ethnic Media Services.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny injustices that exist will interact with other inequities in ways that will be particularly devastating for low-income communities and communities of color,\u201d Tripati added, citing the disproportionate impact on these groups of hurricanes like Maria and Katrina or wildfires like those in Paradise, California.<\/p>\n

Low-income families cannot afford to move after a natural disaster and they generally live in places that are built on asphalt and concrete and lack green space, making them more prone to heat waves.<\/p>\n

Heat is the number one weather-related killer in the United States, said Dr. Kristie L. Ebi, professor at the University of Washington\u2019s Center for Health and the Global Environment. \u201cHigher temperatures kill, but almost all of those deaths are preventable.\u201d<\/p>\n