'Racism dictates who gets dumped on': how environmental injustice divides the world
by Nina Lakhani from on (#4SXT8)
Five luminaries explain the concept of 'environmental justice' and reveal why, alongside the climate crisis, it is one of the most pressing issues of our time
Today the Guardian is launching a year-long series, Our Unequal Earth, investigating environmental injustices: how ecological hazards and climate disasters have the harshest impacts on people of color, native tribes and those on low incomes.
The most egregious examples include the lead poisoning crisis in Flint, Michigan, petrochemical pollution in Louisiana's Cancer Alley, and today's series launch story, about an entire river that stops at the US-Mexico border, leaving ordinary Mexicans without water. Each of these cases has also prompted inspiring community activism.
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