Introduction: The establishment of the environmental justice movement can be seen as one of the largest social matters when dealing with the balance of our earth’s surroundings and civil rights to a variety of ethnical groups. The affairs of the environmental justice movement influenced community members and a large part of the nation to engage back on the issue of disrespect and demand the rights of support that the dumping of waste in their local areas are affecting the lives of human’s health. People of race, low income, and dissimilar culture are being ignored fair handlings of pollutants and instead their communities are being targeted by large corporations to be their aimed junk yard for their left over waste. With the denial to low-earing,
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What the environment movement consist of is people of color, different heritages, low income and there community’s being targeted to be a mass waste land for pollutants. The argument stands in this is no accident or it just happens to be a coincidence. The spark of the movement start in a overly black community called Warren County, North Carolina. The state government had made the decision that the neightborborhood would make a perfect place for over 6,000 truckloads of soil laced with toxic PCBs, then later after the dumpage the county became aware of the hazard situation making it a nationally aware. The trucks first came into the country during mid-September, 1982, wanting in the future to evolve a new wasteland the small community of Afton. “Many frustrated residents and their allies, furious that state officials had dismissed concerns over PCBs leaching into drinking water supplies, met the trucks. And they stopped them, lying down on roads leading into the landfill. Six weeks of marches and nonviolent street protests followed, and more than 500 people were arrested -- the first arrests in U.S. history over the siting of a landfill” (The Environmental Justice). This was the start of it all, but many government officials did not believe that it was intentional that the waste was dumped there on purpose due to the color or peoples skin and the income in which families made. This is where I make the argument that with out the history of Civil Rights, the way for justice to be proven in environmental activist and poor communities, would and will not be
What the environment movement consist of is people of color, different heritages, low income and there community’s being targeted to be a mass waste land for pollutants. The argument stands in this is no accident or it just happens to be a coincidence. The spark of the movement start in a overly black community called Warren County, North Carolina. The state government had made the decision that the neightborborhood would make a perfect place for over 6,000 truckloads of soil laced with toxic PCBs, then later after the dumpage the county became aware of the hazard situation making it a nationally aware. The trucks first came into the country during mid-September, 1982, wanting in the future to evolve a new wasteland the small community of Afton. “Many frustrated residents and their allies, furious that state officials had dismissed concerns over PCBs leaching into drinking water supplies, met the trucks. And they stopped them, lying down on roads leading into the landfill. Six weeks of marches and nonviolent street protests followed, and more than 500 people were arrested -- the first arrests in U.S. history over the siting of a landfill” (The Environmental Justice). This was the start of it all, but many government officials did not believe that it was intentional that the waste was dumped there on purpose due to the color or peoples skin and the income in which families made. This is where I make the argument that with out the history of Civil Rights, the way for justice to be proven in environmental activist and poor communities, would and will not be