David Pellow's "Waste, Politics, and Enviromental Injustice" states that there is no clear way to label villains and the heroes in the environmental justice because environmental inequalities emerge and changes over time and places. There is no clear guide line that can be agreed upon by every social groups. The distribution of the benefits and the cost is determined by the powerful class with the control over valuable resource including the money. Social class without power to seize the resource mean dangerous living in the slump of poverty.
"Kochworld" by Melissa del Bosque exposes the ugly face of the one the biggest corporate in the state of Texas. Corpus Christi refinery owned by the Koch brothers grew into a cursed land mark in the …show more content…
The benefiter are the Koch brothers, the owners, earning millions of dollars through the refinery. Koch brothers earned millions of dollars, but also made an investment around the government to protect their business. Koch brothers not only profited but, "millions spent lobbying Congress, local politicians and state lawmakers, they’ve benefited from lax environmental regulation and tax incentives and exemptions, while their refineries’ neighbors are mired in illness and poverty." …show more content…
The health problem is not the only problem at the deadly neighborhood. Due to the rate of cancer and birth defect, the value of the houses dropped to the ground. The owners of the houses are paying the cost on economic level even if they do not live in the town themselves.
Pellow stated that environmental racism, which is one category of the environmental injustice, is when all parties want the valuable resources and the benefits and the costs are payed back unevenly in the "Waste politics Environmental Injustice" chapter. The contrast in the growth of the Koch corporate and the decreased value of the Hillcrest town proves the uneven benefits returned each sides. "Corpus Christi, Texas, neighborhood [was] created by Jim Crow segregation" to begin with. (Historic)
The best solution for the state of all the refinery causing a pollution is simple. It is to keep it clean. Suzie Canales, one of the residents in Corpus Christi took the metter into her own hands as a activiest by "using her air-monitoring equipment to take random air samples and taking photos to document emissions or pollution problems with the
"Kochworld" by Melissa del Bosque exposes the ugly face of the one the biggest corporate in the state of Texas. Corpus Christi refinery owned by the Koch brothers grew into a cursed land mark in the …show more content…
The benefiter are the Koch brothers, the owners, earning millions of dollars through the refinery. Koch brothers earned millions of dollars, but also made an investment around the government to protect their business. Koch brothers not only profited but, "millions spent lobbying Congress, local politicians and state lawmakers, they’ve benefited from lax environmental regulation and tax incentives and exemptions, while their refineries’ neighbors are mired in illness and poverty." …show more content…
The health problem is not the only problem at the deadly neighborhood. Due to the rate of cancer and birth defect, the value of the houses dropped to the ground. The owners of the houses are paying the cost on economic level even if they do not live in the town themselves.
Pellow stated that environmental racism, which is one category of the environmental injustice, is when all parties want the valuable resources and the benefits and the costs are payed back unevenly in the "Waste politics Environmental Injustice" chapter. The contrast in the growth of the Koch corporate and the decreased value of the Hillcrest town proves the uneven benefits returned each sides. "Corpus Christi, Texas, neighborhood [was] created by Jim Crow segregation" to begin with. (Historic)
The best solution for the state of all the refinery causing a pollution is simple. It is to keep it clean. Suzie Canales, one of the residents in Corpus Christi took the metter into her own hands as a activiest by "using her air-monitoring equipment to take random air samples and taking photos to document emissions or pollution problems with the