Environmental enforcement is dramatically weaker in communities of color regardless of wealth.

Evidence

If we project Dyson’s national “color of disaster” onto a transnational screen, his phrase can be seen—like Animal’s apocalyptic final words—to point backward to global crimes of environmental racism (that treat certain communities as more expendable than others) and forward as a global portent. The poor of the world are the uncontainable color of a future that cannot be held in check. Yet there is another way to read that future, as a wager—however idealistic—to those in power to embrace the project of more equitable risk distribution, within the nation and beyond. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 156 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Race predicts environmental hazard exposure better than income does — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 294; Some communities are treated as more expendable under global environmental racism — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 156

Related

• Some communities are treated as more expendable under global environmental racism (similarity 0.92)
• Class and unequal political power also drive where environmental harms land (similarity 0.81)
• Race predicts environmental hazard exposure better than income does (similarity 0.80)
• Both mainstream environmentalism and civil rights ignored poor communities of color (similarity 0.80)
• Environmental injustice spans burdens, enforcement, and unequal access to environmental goods. (similarity 0.80)
• Pollution control captures harm at one site only to relocate it onto minority communities (similarity 0.79)
• Environmental visibility and remediation access are distributed unequally by race, class, and globalization (similarity 0.79)
• Distribution remains the most cited dimension of environmental justice despite broader definitions (similarity 0.79)
• Environmental racism includes exclusion from ecology movement leadership (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Some communities are treated as more expendable under global environmental racism #corroborates (0.82) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 156