Environmental Justice

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This paper explains how and why the environmental justice movement, a movement dedicated to ensuring that every group of people, no matter their race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic background will bear a proportionate share of negative environmental consequences, is actually harming the very people it purports to protect. The paper provides information on the origins of the movement, the controversial issue of environmental racism associated with the movement, and examines the arguments on both sides of this issue as well.

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"Beginning in early 1980s, environmental advocates have been publicizing the fact that environmental hazards at the workplace, in the home, and in the community are often disproportionately visited upon the poor and people of color. The issues of urban blight, and the tendencies of factories to proliferate in specific geographic regions exposed residents of these regions to the effects of factory presence, such as decreased forestation, increased amounts of paved land, and the presence of environmental toxins which the factories produces."

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