Climate Change Effects Are Not Equally Distributed

The cartoon here has many societal implications surrounding the idea that our planet is actually a small island on which everyone is affected by the vast damage we’re doing to our environment.

The truth, however, is a bit different.  The world’s poorest people are disproportionately affected by the storms, wildfires, and loss of land mass caused by sea-level rise, not to mention the pollution in our skies and waterways.

Rich people will not become climate refugees, like those whose homelands have become uninhabitable, nor will they suffer from the loss of natural resources.

An example: Southern  California is known for its freeways–a total of 650 miles in all.  Did you know that people who live within a mile of a freeway have rates of cancer that are several time higher than those who don’t?  Guess what: rich people don’t live in these graveyards.