GEOG 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Environmental Racism, Toxic Waste, Electronic Waste
4 Oct 2020
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Environmental justice: look at socioespacial distribution of environmental hazards. Interlocking systems of oppression and how they operate spatially. Low wage labour force next to industrial sites. Nimbyism and social/political/economic power examples of environmental racism. The view that the pollution of poor neighbourhoods by, for example, factories and hazardous-waste dumps is the result of the structured and institutionalized inequality that is pervasive in both capitalist core and the periphery (knox,martin, import) Plastic in ocean, landfills close to capacity. Prohibits off loading of hazardous waste of wealthy countries to countries with poor environmental and labour regulations. Little oversight: eg. canada and philippines (50-80% of our hazardous waste is sent to other countries) 2016: 183 un member states party bc not us (even though the states makes the most waste out of every country) E-waste= old, broken or discarded products that use electricity.
