{"id":3699,"date":"2021-11-02T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/who-bears-the-brunt-of-the-climate-crisis"},"modified":"2021-11-02T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T12:07:00","slug":"who-bears-the-brunt-of-the-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/who-bears-the-brunt-of-the-climate-crisis","title":{"rendered":"Who bears the brunt of the climate crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As with any crisis \u2013 whether that\u2019s the COVID-19 pandemic, flooding or fires \u2013 it is much harder to keep yourself safe and protected if you are already at a disadvantage. This means the impacts of the climate crisis and environmental degradation fall disproportionately on people of colour.<br \/>\nHere in the UK, people of colour and their families are more likely to live in poverty, and recent figures also reveal and overrepresentation of people of colour in homelessness. Racialised communities are disproportionately likely to breathe illegal levels of air pollution, with campaign groups like Clean Air for Southall and Hayes forced to fight corporations for the right to clean air.<br \/>\nImmigration policies are a contributing factor to this inequality.<br \/>\nThe \u2018No Recourse to Public Funds\u2019 rule, stamped on most visas, denies people access to the Universal Credit and housing support that many people need to get by, including in Britain\u2019s epidemic of low-paid, insec&#8230;<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with any crisis \u2013 whether that\u2019s the COVID-19 pandemic, flooding or fires \u2013 it is much harder to keep yourself safe and protected if you are already at a disadvantage. This means the impacts of the climate crisis and environmental degradation fall disproportionately on people of colour. Here in the UK, people of colour&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}