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Environmental equity.
Someone once said that no one is safe from the many environmental problems that threaten our planet and our health; but, we are not all endangered equally.
Over the last five years, the civil rights movement has voiced concern over the likelihood that low-income groups and people of color are more subject to environmental hazards than their white and more affluent counterparts. The traditionally white, middle class environmental movement has begun to support this claim, and what has resulted is evidence of growing cooperation between those committed to protecting nature and those committed to correcting problems of social justice. Political activity resulting from such cooperation has materialized only recently. Most observers point to the 1982 demonstration against the siting of a PCB landfill in Warren County, North Carolina as the wate...See the full content of this document
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