BIO SCI 55 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Hydraulic Fluid, Mexican Americans, Real Number
19 Dec 2017
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Noxious facilities: garbage sites, toxic waste dumps, brothels and adult book stores, even: homeless shelters, aids hospices, Common acronyms: lulu: locally unwanted land use, nimby: not in my backyard, pibby: place in black backyard. Environmental racism at various geographical scales: global: rich nation/poor nation, regional: within a nation (ex: appalachia, the south, sub-regional: rich communities/poor communities. Louisiana overview: petrochemical industry (mass revenue for state) importance. Source of 1 in 3 tax dollars: huey long (governor 1928 1932) The devil"s bargain : hundreds of million of lbs of pollutants a year, air, ground, water carcinogens (cause cancer), embryo toxins, called a massive human experiment, and a national sacrifice zone . And then too : 30% of nation"s landfill capacity permitted. Comes from north, east, and west: yet, state has about 2% of the nation"s population, remember this: Source of 20% of america"s petrochemicals: population: 1,200, 99% afro-american, working class suburb of baton rouge.
