SOCL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: White Nationalism, Lawrence Summers, Cancer Alley
8 Nov 2017
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Birth of the environmental: environmental justice: people who live in poorer neighborhoods have more toxic environments, less parks. Ra(cid:272)is(cid:373) is like a(cid:374) i(cid:272)e(cid:271)urg : unequal access to power and resources. Larry u(cid:373)(cid:373)ers: said there are (cid:271)iologi(cid:272)al reaso(cid:374)s why wo(cid:373)e(cid:374) should(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e i(cid:374) s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e. Environmental justice since warren county: nc also home to hog industries: exposed to massive amounts of pig manure (cid:862)fe(cid:374)(cid:272)eli(cid:374)e(cid:863) communities: places right up against polluting industries. Cancer alley: red dots are some kind of polluting industry. Environmental justice: construction of schools: can be built on heavily contaminated land. School siting: up until 2010, there were no federal guidelines on where schools were built, it was up to the states. Image: that area had been used before for oil drilling impacts on child health. Lower income areas have polluted areas to worry about: suburbs have more resources to do site investigations, higher taxes, can identify site more quickly.
