Tania Caldwell  

      URB200  

     October 13, 2021  

                                                             

The article explains how environmental injustices have negatively impacted communities of color. According to the article, low-income people have been impacted by air pollution and hazardous waste placement. African American communities are more likely to be around hazardous chemical waste, which increases air pollution and ill residents in those communities. Most organizations focus on fighting against environmental injustices and get partnerships with local organizations and activists to mobilize environmental concerns and the danger of those hazardous waste sites. One of those organizations is the EJ Movement, which has created partnerships with other organizations and brought politicians. Many Global South nations had been affected by the environmental hazards that the United States had contributed by industrialization. The movement had raised their fight to build protection for communities that were negatively impacted by environmental injustices. 

The podcast “Unleaded” by Abdul Vo explained how Flint’s community faced the harmful effects of using a water system that was not taken care of appropriately and ended up poisoning many families during the Flint Water Crisis. To save some money, the government uses the Flint water system that was not proper for human consumption, including lead, which harm children. The main point of this Abdul and the doctor in charge of this discovery was how the government reacted to this situation and how the government reacted to this issue. According to Dr. Hanna- Attisha, the government response was not expected. The government did not admit that the water was poisoned and did not take responsibility for the crisis.  

 The government involvement in environmental struggles shows that the people of color and low-income communities could be the most negatively impacted by the lack of environmental solutions in poor communities. The Flint Water Crisis shows that the government did not try to take care of the community; even does not caring about children could harm their health forever. For decades, African American communities had been the most impacted by environmental struggles, the hazardous waste, and water polution which still impact millions of American families. The government had failed to protect the rights of the most vulnerable people who true and put their health in their hand. In the case of the Flint Water Crisis, the citizen, true the government that it water would be taken care of by expected who knew that they consumed clean water.  

Pellow, David, and Robert Brulle. 2007. “Poisoning the Planet: The Struggle for Environmental Justice“. 

                                            References  

Listen to: “Unleaded” Episode of America Dissected podcast. November 4, 2019.