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What the hell are "environmental inequalities"? And isn't the goal to make the environment cleaner, not just to equalize something about it. These guys may as
by jononomo 3y ago
What the hell are "environmental inequalities"? And isn't the goal to make the environment cleaner, not just to equalize something about it. These guys may as well point out that dramatically reducing the size of the sun would "reduce the inequality between the size of the sun and the moon". Who cares?
- PaulHoule 3y agoAir pollution is worse in some places than other places. Back in the 1960s inner cities black kids got an extra dose of fumes from tetraethyl lead in gasoline, that damaged their brains, lowered I.Q. and possibly caused a crime wave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead–crime_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead–crime_hypothesis See also “environmental racism” https://www.nrdc.org/stories/what-environmental-racism https://www.nrdc.org/stories/what-environmental-racism which is very much a real thing even if it didn’t really work as a rallying point to organize around in the 1990s which activists were hoping for.