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Environmental justice has become synonymous with environmental racism and both are probably the most challenging democratic and human rights issues today. Until fairly recently, Environmental justice was ignored by the mainstream environment movement and by ecological economists. The concern was for conservation primarily of fauna and flora and the protection of fragile ecosystems. At the same time, human beings, especially people of color and poor people, were deliberately targeted to bear the burdens of environmental degradation. According to Bullard, “Race and class are intricately linked in our society. However, race continues to be a potent predictor of where people live, which communities get dumped on and which are spared. Racial bias creates and perpetuates unequal environmental quality in communities of color.”1
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Steady, F.C. (2009). Environmental Justice Cross-Culturally. In: Steady, F.C. (eds) Environmental Justice in the New Millennium. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230622531_3
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