Briefly explain three social issues that lead to environmental injustice
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Explanation:
Environmental justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.
It will be achieved when everyone enjoys the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards and equal access to the decision-making process to have a healthy environment in which to live, learn, and work
When I evaluate a potential construction site to quantify environmental justice I first check the demographics of the surrounding area. Looking for the distribution minority, elderly, adolescent, and poor community members allows me to assess the potential for impact of constructing at that site, regardless of the construction type.
So issues such as the deliberate location of major point sources (factories, mills, etc that produce emissions of air or water pollution in massive and reportable quantities) near impoverished neighborhoods is environmental injustice. EPA scientists find black communities disproportionately hit by pollution