SCLG3601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lois Gibbs, Environmental Racism, Love Canal
4 Nov 2018
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Unit overview: the topic: environmental and climate justice structure of lectures, me and my work. Your tutor: weekly topics and the flow of the unit, readings: all online, check canvas modules first, requirements: Long history of environmental impacts of cities impacts were not equally distributed and experienced. Municipal housekeeping to mlk support of sanitation workers. Two early strains of the movement: anti-toxics movement and movement against environmental racism. Love canal neighborhood built over toxic dump. Activism led by women lois gibbs. First time govt paid for all homes. One of poorest counties,with highest percentage of african americans. Culminated in major protest in 1982,with coalition of black politicians, churches, civil rights, and environmental organizations. Forged a synthesis between civil rights and enviro issues seen as birth of movement against environmental. On westcoast,kettleman city movement against toxic waste incinerator a similar story. Racism is related to land use and zoning; poor and disadvantaged move to low-cost areas.
