Sacrifice zones

the front lines of toxic chemical exposure in the United States

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Sacrifice zones

the front lines of toxic chemical exposure in the United States

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""Sacrifice Zones is the compelling companion work to Diamond, Steve Lerner's landmark study of a small Louisiana town coping with the ravages of pollution from the factories surrounding it. In this book, Lerner travels to a dozen low-income, mostly minority communities around the country where the pressure to protect good-paying jobs takes a grim and painful toll on human health. As he did with such skill in Diamond, Lerner lets the people living, working, and in too many cases, dying from pollution in these 'fenceline communities' do the story telling. What the reader will be left with is shame and outrage that the richest country in the world has allowed entire communities to be sacrificed to pollution. But I believe you will also come away from this book with fresh resolve that our fellow citizens will not continue to be forgotten casualties of commerce."-Ken Cook, President, Environmental Working Group" ""This is a compelling treatise on why the dominant environmental protection apparatus should be overhauled to emphasize prevention, precaution, and equal protection. The book is a significant complement to three decades of environmental justice research that provides irrefutable empirical evidence that all American communities are not created equal."--Robert D. Bullard, Ware Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director, Environmental Justice Resource Center, Clark Atlanta University" ""These case histories from fenceline America are compelling, beautifully detailed stories that integrate authentic voices from grassroots struggles for environmental justice. Lerner captures the nuance of these community struggles, and posits the common paradigm linking these twelve communities as he heralds the pain, the passion, the human cost of life and death in America's sacrifice zones."--Peggy M. Shepard, Executive Director and cofounder of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, New York City".

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MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
346

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Cambridge, Mass
Genre
Case studies

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
363.738/420973
Library of Congress
RA1226 .L47 2010, RA1226.L47 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
346

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23994323M
Internet Archive
sacrificezonesfr00stev
ISBN 13
9780262014403
LCCN
2009051289
OCLC/WorldCat
495616819

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