Environmental harm inscribes itself visibly on children’s and workers’ bodies

Evidence

In cities, we see the world writing the impact of air quality on the lungs of children who experience greater rates of asthma. In agricultural regions, dust clings to workers’ clothing and earth embeds itself in the lines of people’s skin, and the writing of the world is available to be read by others. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1108

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Could support either the trees-as-infrastructure or sacrifice essays with a concrete bodily-correspondence point.
• XREF: Connects to chapter 18’s claim that humans can only create conditions for nature’s self-liberation, not liberate it. — connects to: Chemical and radiological violence becomes invisible cellular drama in poor bodies — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 28