Leslie Guzman, U2 First Source Citation

Citation and source #1: 

Source: https://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/air-pollution-kills-evidence-global-analysis-exposure-and-poverty 

Citation #1: “Air Pollution Kills – Evidence from a Global Analysis of Exposure and Poverty.” World Bank Blogs, blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/air-pollution-kills-evidence-global-analysis-exposure-and-poverty. Accessed 24 Oct. 2023. 

Summary: To summarize this text, the author put it clearly using facts and data to support their claim, that air pollution has had a lasting impact on impoverished communities on a global scale. The author makes correlations based on data from a recent study of the World Health Organization’s PM2.5 concentrations, PM2.5 concentrations are a way to measure the quality of air, by measuring particle pollution from fine particles. This data roughly links 716 million people living in poverty who have been exposed to dangerous levels of air pollutants, are at risk of air quality-based health issues due to higher PM2.5 concentrations.

Reflection: Based on the text, it is clear that many of the people who face air quality-based health issues are the ones living in low-income countries meaning that not only are they not the ones contributing to this problem. It is a result of people in higher-income countries that are deciding not to use alternative resources, that can better the environment for themselves and for others. Meanwhile, globally, there are very few opportunities for lower-income people, which leads to them not being able to get the right medical attention that they need, for a problem in which they cannot avoid. 

Quotation: In the text, the author explains, “For instance, fossil fuel subsidies are well documented to benefit richer households disproportionately, but the air pollution externalities associated with subsidized fossil fuel consumption are also a burden that can be borne disproportionately by poorer households.”