https://padlet.com/julius3337/japev83p3u3qycih By Erin Julius en-us 2021-12-15 22:11:28 UTC 2021-12-15 23:59:05 UTC hello@padlet.com julius3337 https://padlet.com/julius3337/japev83p3u3qycih/wish/1950582934 Poor, migrant, undocumented, and homeless people, along with abandoned children, AIDS orphans, and working-class adults at the lower end of the economic ladder - who are most often people of color, indigenous people, and other racial minorities - live on the most environmentally polluted lands in the most neglected and dangerous neighborhoods with rotting infrastructure and festering poison from lead pipes and paint, toxic emissions, contaminated soil and groundwater, and poisonous landfills. In some countries, this is the result of forced segregation and isolation of minority and poor populations. However, in the contemporary US context, it is the result of economic policies, availability of housing for the poor, exploitation of poor and minority communities by large corporations and business interests, and/or the lingering effects of racial politics, slavery, segregation, share-cropping, ownership of land, and Jim Crow laws.  ]]> 2021-12-15 23:24:03 UTC https://padlet.com/julius3337/japev83p3u3qycih/wish/1950582934 julius3337 https://padlet.com/julius3337/japev83p3u3qycih/wish/1950594919 Environmental racism is the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards on people of color. It refers to the institutional rules, regulations, policies or government and/or corporate decisions that deliberately target certain communities for locally undesirable land uses and lax enforcement of zoning and environmental laws, resulting in communities being disproportionately exposed to toxic and hazardous waste based upon race. It is caused by several factors, including intentional neglect, the alleged need for a receptacle for pollutants in urban areas, and a lack of institutional power and low land values of people of color.

Environmental Justice & Environmental racism. Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice. (n.d.). Retrieved December 15, 2021, from https://greenaction.org/what-is-environmental-justice/ ]]> 2021-12-15 23:37:09 UTC https://padlet.com/julius3337/japev83p3u3qycih/wish/1950594919 julius3337 https://padlet.com/julius3337/japev83p3u3qycih/wish/1950603174 Environmental racism is any policy, practice or directive that differentially affects or disadvantages where intended or unintended individuals, groups or communities based on race. It refers to how minority group neighborhoods that are populated primarily by people of color and members of low-socioeconomic backgrounds are burdened with disproportionate numbers of hazards including toxic waste facilitates, garbage dumps, and other sources of environmental pollutions and foul odors that lower the quality of life.

Peña-Parr, V. (2020, August 4). The complicated history of environmental racism. UNM Newsroom. Retrieved December 15, 2021, from http://news.unm.edu/news/the-complicated-history-of-environmental-racism ]]> 2021-12-15 23:45:19 UTC https://padlet.com/julius3337/japev83p3u3qycih/wish/1950603174 julius3337 https://padlet.com/julius3337/japev83p3u3qycih/wish/1950606795 Environmental racism is the disproportionate burden of environmental hazards placed on people of color. It is often achieved systemically, through policies and practices that effectively place low-income and communities of color in close proximity to polluting facilities like power stations, plastics plants, and methane gas pipelines or to infrastructure like major highways. It causes far greater rates of serious health problems in communities of color, from cancer to lung conditions to heart attacks, as well as a higher prevalence and severity of asthma, lower birth weights, and greater incidence of high blood pressure.

Climate Reality Leadership Corps. (2021, April 6). Environmental racism: What it is and how you can fight it. The Climate Reality Project. Retrieved December 15, 2021, from https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/environmental-racism-what-it-and-how-you-can-fight-it ]]> 2021-12-15 23:48:39 UTC https://padlet.com/julius3337/japev83p3u3qycih/wish/1950606795