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Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/urban-noise-pollution-health-wildlife-environmental-justice.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ecowatch.com/urban-noise-pollu</span><span class="invisible">tion-health-wildlife-environmental-justice.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TranslatingGaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TranslatingGaza</span></a>: The findings of the study —  the first to evaluate noise inequality in <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/redlined" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>redlined</span></a> communities — were that louder levels of noise are more commonly found in redlined urban areas, and that they detrimentally affect urban ecosystems in proportion to their volume.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/StopHumanRightsViolations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StopHumanRightsViolations</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/WhiteFaceBlackFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteFaceBlackFuel</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DispropotionateImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DispropotionateImpacts</span></a>: <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Heatwaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Heatwaves</span></a> are hotter in <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/historically" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>historically</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/redlined" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>redlined</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/neighborhoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>neighborhoods</span></a>, Hurricane Harvey disproportionately flooded Spanish-speaking households, and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/airpollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>airpollution</span></a> is worse in predominantly <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Black</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/neighborhoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>neighborhoods</span></a> than mostly <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/white" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>white</span></a> ones.&amp;nbsp;There are reasons for this, and they have nothing to do with the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>physics</span></a> of a warming <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/atmosphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>atmosphere</span></a>.</p>
Tracy Rosenberg<p>&quot;The legacy of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pollution</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/disinvestment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>disinvestment</span></a> persists, and it is also connected to the area’s rate of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>violence</span></a>: formerly <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/redlined" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>redlined</span></a> communities have significantly higher rates of gun violence than non-redlined neighborhoods.&quot; <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/31/california-port-city-pollution-gun-violence" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2022/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/31/california-port-city-pollution-gun-violence</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BrokenTaillight" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BrokenTaillight</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>racism</span></a> is <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/redlined" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>redlined</span></a> into the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/socialfabric" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>socialfabric</span></a>: It’s common, though misguided, for US leaders to brush aside comparisons to famously <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/multimodal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>multimodal</span></a> cities like Copenhagen and Berlin, insisting that <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>American</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/autocentrism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>autocentrism</span></a> is too deeply ingrained to be dislodged. But it’s much harder to dismiss the stunning progress in the European Union’s host <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/city" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>city</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/carfree" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>carfree</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/beyondEV" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>beyondEV</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/subsistence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>subsistence</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SelfSufficient" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SelfSufficient</span></a> </p><p>A Belgian Lesson in Taming the Automobile <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-05-16/from-traffic-choked-brussels-a-model-for-driving-less" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bloomberg.com/news/features/20</span><span class="invisible">23-05-16/from-traffic-choked-brussels-a-model-for-driving-less</span></a></p>