Environmental Racism
About Environmental Racism
Environmental racism is a concept in the environmental justice movement, which developed throughout the 1970s and 1980s in the United States. The term is used to describe environmental injustice that occurs in practice and in policy within a racialized context.
Climate change: Brazil's Lula to return to world stage at COP27
... It is unbelievable to feel part of Brazil again, " Gabrielle Alves, an Environmental Racism researcher who is part of the Clima de Mudança coalition, told BBC News...
George Floyd: Five pieces of context to understand the protests
... Environmental Racism, unaffordable housing, lack of employment opportunities, poverty and inadequate health care are the underlying social conditions, strongly influenced by the policy, which threatens the black people and their neighborhoods...
'Time bomb' warning on mining dam disasters
... It is a scandal, he told me, it is a form of Environmental Racism...
