{"id":804,"date":"2020-07-18T16:15:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T16:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.law.fordham.edu\/elr\/?p=804"},"modified":"2020-07-18T16:15:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T16:15:20","slug":"racism-causes-environmental-injustice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/?p=804","title":{"rendered":"Racism Causes Environmental Injustice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-806\" src=\"https:\/\/news.law.fordham.edu\/elr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/07\/A4631487-1BE3-4C08-AED4-BD9043857FD5-273x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">\u201cEnvironmentalism has to be broadened to incorporate organizations and groups that may not necessarily have \u2018environment\u2019 in their name.\u201d &#8212;\u00a0Dr. Robert Bullard, Dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Black Lives Matter (BLM) shepherded the national conversation to police brutality.\u00a0 The Fordham Environmental Law Review (ELR) supports BLM.\u00a0 We, the Board of the Fordham ELR, will contribute to that conversation, including and especially regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/157984\/defunding-police-good-climate-policy\">reallocating police funding<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">Police brutality is a symptom of racism.\u00a0 Economic injustice is a symptom of racism.\u00a0 Environmental injustice is a symptom of racism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">Black neighborhoods are disproportionately affected by environmental injustice.\u00a0 They are the hardest hit.\u00a0 For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naacp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CoalBlooded.pdf\">according to a 2012 study by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People\u2019s (NAACP)<\/a>, Black and Latino families are more likely than White households to live near coal-fired power plants.\u00a0 Black communities are often more vulnerable to drought, heat islands, and extreme weather events, due to a legacy of discrimination from local and national government officials.\u00a0 Police brutalization of black bodies is wrong.\u00a0 Environmental brutalization of black bodies through respiratory diseases, asthma, and various cancers is wrong.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">We want to make change.\u00a0 We call on you to view environmental justice as a racial issue.\u00a0 Please consider the Environmental Law Review a forum for academic contributions on this issue.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">#blacklivesmatter #RIPRepJohnLewis<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEnvironmentalism has to be broadened to incorporate organizations and groups that may not necessarily have \u2018environment\u2019 in their name.\u201d &#8212;\u00a0Dr. Robert Bullard, Dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordhamlawelr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}