"Pollution is Segregated" Says the Father of Environmental Justice | Amanpour and Company

[@rachelbeezy]

he is not the "so-called father of environmental justice" -- he IS the father of environmental justice

[@rosahodge420]

Absolutely

[@ronaldkable]

Excellent analysis of a worlwide problem! Big respect for your work over so many years, Prof Bullard

[@jz35]

9:33 the sigh heard around the world

[@exodia_right_leg]

The interviewer was quite good. It's jarring looking at quality after some of the stuff that's happened in the past few years.

[@ceejhsymposium6199]

Thank you, Vivek, and thanks to you all for being involved.

[@janwag6856]

It’s good to hear from voices of experience and expertise about the past because we will need to know what came before to avoid making the same mistakes in the future. Well told! Thanks 🙏

[@snobbypolitics7792]

This guy is DOPE! 💪🏾🔥

[@au4gold0008]

I just wanna ask what does pallion effect means?thank you to anyone who can answer without judgement. I just didn’t understand the term.

[@timeisrunningoutforthebeast]

Thanks

[@SongDog9]

NOISE IS POLLUTION ALSO

[@JacobL228]

If I could play devil's advocate for a bit here: "Economic segregation" is just how homeownership works. Most people don't want to live in worse homes and worse neighborhoods if they can help it, and if people live beyond their means by buying on credit, history has shown us that the economy will take a nosedive. Some people might think that the solution is to make all homes and neighborhoods preferable, but that's just gentrification, and it usually just results in ignorant white hipsters making things visually and culturally appealing to them while pricing out minority residents. Rather than trying to frame this as a racial issue, we should be looking at this as the infrastructural issue that it is. If the government spends countless hours and tax dollars trying to put into words exactly how some people are being marginalized, instead of thanking them, they're going to ask why they didn't do anything to stop their house from being swept away by a hurricane or flood. Instead of saying, "don't pollute in black neighborhoods," we need to be saying, "find a way to mitigate the pollution itself." Treat the disease, not the symptoms.

[@cjlocastle]

read pollination is segregated but was still down

[@snorfallupagus6014]

Smoke ain't woke, and that's no joke

Great stuff :) Would you like to be KZbin friends? :)

[@jayel5206]

yeah white people live there too

[@KC-ep6sg]

The communities affected have disproportionately large percentages of POC, and socioeconomic status is also a major factor. You're right, white people do live in those communities, but there are less of them than in wealthier communities. This is an issue of race AND class, but there are studies that show that race is the stronger predictor for proximity to toxic waste sites, even after taking confounding variables into account. Dr. Bullard wrote an extensive report on environmental racism called Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty: 1987-­2007 that shows the actual statistics of these issues, it's very interesting. He also has a lot of books you could read, but that report is a good place to start if you just want to see the hard facts in table and graph form. It's almost 200 pages but I'm sure if you skim it or even just focus on chapters 3 and 4, you'll see that this is very much a problem that affects the Black community the most, despite being a minority in the overall population of the US, which is why people talk about environmental injustice as an extension of racism.

[@mishaladara]

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