Some communities are treated as more expendable under global environmental racism

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

Categorization

• XREF: Expands the environmental racism thread of eco-justice pedagogy from national to transnational scale — expendability as the differential-risk core. — connects to: Environmental enforcement is dramatically weaker in communities of color regardless of wealth.; Pollution control captures harm at one site only to relocate it onto minority communities — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 623; Detroit’s incinerator concentrates toxic harm on poor communities of color — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1237 (+4 more)
• DEFINE: Explicitly defines environmental racism as treating certain communities as more expendable than others.

Broader Connections

• Environmental visibility and remediation access are distributed unequally by race, class, and globalization #expands (0.85) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 175
• Global environmental justice movements target misrecognition, exclusion, and incapacity alongside inequity #expands (0.75) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 298