'One study of 108 US urban areas found that formerly redlined neighbourhoods had surface temperatures about 2.6C, or nearly 5F hotter than others. “This is one of the most visible ways that we can see structurally racist decisions from the past play out today as climate risk,” says Max Cawley, who participated in a “heat mapping” project of Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina.'

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