Trace pollutants cause ethnic air cleansing in Europe
Originally submitted by Joe Ravetz
last updated by Rafael Popper
Wild Card's progress: fully-fledged
This Wild Card came from:
European Commission Framework Programme for RTD
The theme/scheme related to this Wild Card:
Theme 6 - Environment (including Climate Change)
The sub-theme that best relates to this Wild Card:
Environment and health
Likelihood timeframe and scenario features :
now-2050
Wild Card's description
The hazard of trace pollutants in urban air are shown to be focused on certain ethnic minorities, e.g. Pakistani or certain EU groups, who are more susceptible to hereditary disorders such as B-thalassaemia. This rapidly leads to controversy on social norms on genetic disorders, and the disclosure of such information: ethnic tension and stress on kinship groups: and distrust of public policy and scientists. Indirectly it helps to amplify social unrest and risk of fundamentalist terrorism.
