Homeowners frame environmental pollution as a personal property-value threat.
Evidence
I’m also a concerned property owner. The only thing I own of any substantial economic value is the home I own in downtown Evergreen City. And what’s gonna happen to this investment when I have to sell it to support myself for my older years, older than I am even now? Nobody’s gonna come banging on my door to buy a lovely home, with a lovely view, with some lovely toxic pollutants in town. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 82
Categorization
- SEED: The property-owner frame as a permissible way to voice concern about contamination suggests an essay on how economic language licenses environmental speech that ‘broad concern’ cannot.
- XREF: connects to: Consumer-driven environmental protest stopped at the edge of homeowners’ own property — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 50; Domesticity is an alibi for conflating person with property — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory: A Marxist…, 124; Upper-middle households increasingly treated homes as leverage assets. — Neil Fligstein & Adam Goldstein, The Emergence of a Finance Culture in…, 66 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Consumer-driven environmental protest stopped at the edge of homeowners’ own property
#contradicts(0.80) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 50 - Domesticity is an alibi for conflating person with property
#expands(0.80) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 124 - Homeowners ignored environmental costs their septic systems imposed on others
#corroborates(0.80) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 438 - Upper-middle households increasingly treated homes as leverage assets.
#complicates(0.72) — Neil Fligstein & Adam Goldstein, The Emergence of a Finance Culture in…, 66 - Unwanted environmental risk exposure constitutes a denial of recognition
#expands(0.72) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 223