Environmental justice asks one simple question:
Who gets the #pollution and who gets the #protection ?
Historically, the answer has been:
#low-income communities
#working-class #neighborhoods
#communities of #color
#rural or #politically #weak areas
They get:
#landfills
#highways
#chemical #plants
#contaminated #water
#delayed #cleanup
While wealthier areas get:
#parks
#clean #air
#buffers
faster #enforcement
#political #responsiveness
#Environmental #justice #exists because that #pattern was not #accidental
whit
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2026-01-18 21:11:27 UTC
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