Corporations can relocate while pollution-bearing communities cannot

Evidence

By the time Saro-Wiwa was executed, the Nigerian military and Mobile Police force had killed 2,000 Ogoni through direct murder and the burning of villages. Ogoni air had been fouled by the flaring of natural gas, their croplands scarred by oil spills, their drinking and fishing waters poisoned. Although Shell was driven out of Ogoniland in 1993, it simply moved on to other parts of Nigeria’s once lush delta of death. Meanwhile, the Shell legacy continues to seep into the environment and bodies of the local farming community that, unlike the international corporation, has nowhere else to go. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 302

Categorization

• XREF: Directly epitomizes ch.8 ‘capital moves freely while ecologically dispossessed people become stationary displaced’ with a concrete case. — connects to: Native Americans cannot relocate away from environmental hazards as other citizens can; Legally confined Tribes cannot relocate away from environmental hazards — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 613; Corporations deploy distancing strategies to wear down environmental justice campaigns — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 159 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The wealthy can exit toxic environments; the poor cannot #expands (0.85) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1100
• Free markets shift environmental costs onto communities whoever produces #expands (0.75) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 1051