EESA10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Beryllium, Non-Ionizing Radiation, Diesel Fuel
7 Apr 2017
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Chapter 4 143-156: the burden of lead exposure is not evenly distributed across the united states society but rather falls more heavily on disenfranchised groups including the poor and african. Such social inequities in exposure and effect can be magnified over time in the cycle of intergenerational effects. Children in lower socioeconomic groups i likely to be more exposed to lead and are also less likely to have a diet high in iron and calcium. In contrast children and higher socioeconomic groups generally continue encounter conditions that insulates them and alternately the children from leads impacts. But with more of these gases entering the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels the resulting enhanced greenhouse effect is proving to be too much of a good thing. This impact is truly worldwide because it occurs through affects on the natural global carbon cycle.
