Our addiction to burning fossil fuels is heating up our city and profoundly impacting low-income communities of color. Almost any New Yorker can look at this map and see the relationship between extreme heat and communities with concentrations of low-income people:

Unfortunately, as far as the heat goes, there’s more on tap in our (and our children’s) future:

An interesting article in the Amsterdam Daily News highlights the correlation between centers of gun violence and these urban heat islands:

And is well worth reading:

Climate change & rising temps are increasing gun violence

Excessive summer heat it is causing, a lesser-known repercussion is coming to light: its correlation with the uptick in gun violence.

amsterdamnews.com/news/2023/08/31/climate-change-rising-temps-are-increasing-gun-violence

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