Before my professor gave me this assignment i had never heard of Environmental Racism. Even when I first heard about environmental racism I just figured it was just something simple like, racism in different environments. I really got the full effect of what environmental racism was when I watched the video "Toxic City: This is Where I Live". Watching the video made me realize how serious this matter is. Environmental racism can cause death. People get cancer from all the pollution and toxins put in their communities. Young children have to walk around with inhalers because they have asthma due to this problem. I think it is really crazy that they put minorities (African American/ Latinos) in impoverish communities and just pollute the area. Even if there is nobody living in the environment, the area should not be polluted. Pollution spreads in the air, and can affect many things like, plants, animals, and even the weather. People can not even go outside and breath without suffering from consequences.
URL: http://www.holamun2.com/shows/news-special/mun2-news-toxic-city
This is so true. A lot of people aren't in the know about this because it's not affecting them. Thanks for posting the link. Hopefully the word will be spread because i think this is an issues that is in dire need of solving.
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