Play | Topics | Authors | Random

Danh ngôn của Majora Carter (Sứ mệnh: 6)

As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.
Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.
Environmental justice, for those of you who may not be familiar with the term, goes something like this: no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.
From a planning perspective, economic degradation begets environmental degradation, which begets social degradation.