The Fuhrer and his Republican Reich seem to have found a way to deal with minorities. Polluting their neighborhoods until they can no longer survive is one way to ensure that they won’t vote for Democrats. To be sure, you won’t find the immediate effects of Trump’s environmental policy at Mar-a-Lago or anywhere billionaires congregate. They are reserved for the poor, especially poor minorities.
The Trump administration’s dismantling of environmental regulations has intensified a growing civil rights battle over the deadly burden of pollution on minorities and low-income people.
Black, Latino, and disadvantaged people have long been disproportionately afflicted by toxins from industrial plants, cars, hazardous housing conditions and other sources.
But political leaders, academics and activists spoke of a growing urgency around the struggle for environmental justice as the Trump administration peels away rules designed to protect clean air and water.
“What we are seeing is the institutionalization of discrimination again, the thing we’ve fought for 40 years,” said Robert Bullard, an academic widely considered the father of the environmental justice movement.
“There are people in fence-line communities who are now very worried. If the federal government doesn’t monitor and regulate, and gives the states a green light to do what they want, we are going to get more pollution, more people will get sick. There will be more deaths.”
Activists and some in Congress now view the blight of pollution as a vast, largely overlooked civil rights issue that places an unbearable burden on people of color and low-income communities… [emphasis added]
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I have shared just the introduction of this article with you. I strongly urge you to click through and read the entire thing to see just how they are practicing Republican environmental racism.
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Anyone who could have followed the story of Flint and not seen this coming is not paying attention. Of course it also affects poor whites, not that I see Republicans caring two sticks about them either. They think they are not going to need slaves any longer due to artificial intelligence – which may work for them – but they also think the poisons they are distributing will not reach them, and they are decidedloy wrong about that.
I feel bad for those living in those communities, as they need assistance and are not getting it. Look at most communities that live and breathe the toxic air. From the elderly, to the babies. When we lived in AZ.,and NC., they used to spray the fields (like the story), with waste. One could smell, breathe it until it dried up. Then they’d do it again, over and over, till the crop grew.
Kudos to Mr. Booker for introducing new legislation to eliminate social injustice. We sure do need it.
There is an old phrase that refers to something “Stinking to high heaven.” This renewed polluting stinks to the, presumably, low hell, just where these &&##@@@&’s ought to be going!
Drumpf’s environmental discrimination in America is of course directly linked to his abandonment of the Paris agreement (now as the only country in the world), both resting on the insane assumption that in this globalized world and with the scale pollution is occurring on the effects are local and can be kept local. Of course the poor minorities will suffer most because they are living in or next to the most polluted areas and absorb the highest concentrations on a daily basis. They’re in the greatest peril of getting sick and dying from pollution, but only those who completely ignore all science can believe pollution will not infiltrate all environment in time, including thay of the 1%, or that local high CO2 and methane emissions doesn’t effect all climate on this planet.
Their lack of long-term vision may prevent plutocrats from seeing that in the end the effects of pollution will get to them as well, but not seeing what it does to the poor minority communities right under their noses is a conscious decision to look the other way. When it comes to close they remove themselves from those troubling sites, gathering in their (almost) pristine resorts and play a round of golf, failing to realize that the water they have their courses sprinkled with to keep them green is being polluted too and their courses will soon be under water from rising sea levels. And with their decisions this administration is speeding up the whole process: callously killing off America’s poor as fast as they can with their pollution and denial of health care, and by passing the point of no return destroying it all, even for themselves.
The second sentence of the Declaration of Independence says:
What constitutes “Life”? To me, the unalienable right to life would include clean air to breathe, potable water, freedom from hazardous chemicals that can cause death or disability by ingestion, breathing, contact with eyes or touching just to name three. Perhaps it also should include freedom from Republicans.
Residential apartheid — an interesting term. I had not thought of the problem in those words, but they sure do fit.
Perhaps the plant in the picture should be relocated so that it is within 3 miles of Mar-A-Lago. And Drumpf was worried about the wind turbines off the coast of Scotland near his golf course? Give him something real, not imagined, with which to concern himself.
Excellent article!
Robert D. BullardInvisible Houston: Full Interview with Dr. Robert Bullard, Father of Environmental Justice MovementWeb Exclusive September 07, 2017
Video (CC) & Transcripthttps://www.democracynow.org/2017/9/7/invisible_houston_full_interview_with_dr
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Thanks and hugs to all.