Environmental racism facts for kids

Environmental racism are environmental policies, practices, or other measures that intentionally or not, disproportionately affects the environment of certain communities, groups, or people. Usually based on race, colour, or other groups such as income.

Images for kids

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  People protesting the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, which disproportionately affects people of color and low-income communities

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  Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., the man who coined the phrase "environmental racism"

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  Allison Janae Hamilton in front of one of her works called "The peo-ple cried mer-cy in the storm"

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  Oil spill

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  The reconstructed Africville Church in Nova Scotia

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  Canadian sociologist Ingrid Waldron lectures on Environmental Racism at Dalhousie University in 2018.

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  2017 Climate March protester holds up sign on the Flint water crisis.

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  Photograph from 1892 of a pile of American bison skulls in Detroit, Michigan, waiting to be ground for fertilizer or charcoal. The United States Army encouraged massive hunts of American bison to force Native Americans off their traditional lands and into reservations further west. This is considered an early example of environmental racism.

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  Panguna copper mine under construction, 1971

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  Aftermath of Lago Agrio oil field

See also

In Spanish: Racismo ambiental para niños