https://www.ehn.org/environmental-justice-puffins-2658170000.html
"When I tell bird-loving audiences what puffins mean to me, I start with the
expected.
I show my photos of them either with fish in their orange, yellow, and
blue-black beaks, gathered in kaleidoscopic multitude, or nuzzling in
affection. I always get oohs, ahhs, and a choral, “sooooo cute.”Then I show
images that are not so cute.
They are of mothers and children of southeast Chicago, with toxic industries at
the end of their block. They live in what environmental justice advocates decry
as “sacrifice zones.” In the last decade alone, this primarily brown and Black
community has suffered choking clouds of dust from oil refining byproducts,
lead in lawns, and neurotoxic manganese dust in the air. Just last month, the
Department of Housing and Urban Development blasted an attempt to relocate here
a scrap metal recycling facility ousted from the predominately white north
side. HUD said it was an example of “shifting polluting activities from white
neighborhoods to Black and Hispanic neighborhoods."
Indirectly via
Future Crunch Sep 12, 2022:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
