GEOS2121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Warren County, North Carolina, Robert Lee Bullard, Working Poor
16 Oct 2018
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The second contradiction of capitalism: capitalism undermines its own perpetuation by degrading natural resources: degradation of natural resources and the environmental conditions threatens the health of (1) environment, (2) workers. Contradiction leads to struggles over social reproduction (=outcome of contradiction: social reproduction: producing the needs required to keep people healthy. Air quality: labour to produce food, access to healthcare services (good health to reproduce productive workers, education practices: especially informal forms of education (ex. What is environmental racism and environmental justice: examples from the united states, where environmental justice movements originated. Environmental racism: the idea that non-whites are disproportionately exposed to pollution, minorities + poor = uneven exposure to environmental hazards + less access to environmental amenities (ex. Green space, clean air: uneven and unequal allocation of environmental goods (green space) + environmental bads (pollution, uneven distribution disproportionate impacts on non-whites, environmental bads = distributed in a racist way.
