Redlining shaped the power grid. Communities of color are still paying the price.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2025/05/redlining-minority-neighborhoods-power-grid-energy-infrastructure-communities-color/

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GarrulousBrevity@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I have been told the fix is to stop talking about race. Surely if we don't talk about it, the grid will upgrade itself?

Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 1y

Shhhh! Don't spook it, it startles easily then pockets the money.

desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I am curious how much is directly attributable to redlining and how much is because of poverty and a lack of generational wealth?

ToastedRavioli@midwest.social · 2 pts · 1y

Those two things are inextricably linked together