Whats the scope of this type of environmental injustice? How large is the problem?
Julie Sze: Globalization has really allowed injustice to really go global. The term really describes all different types of problems. Some people use it to describe climate change and how that affects people disproportionately in the third world. It’s not [a single] issue but more an analytic frame that describes environmental injustice, so you can apply it to lots of different topics. Problems like ground-water contamination and lack of clean air are found more in developing countries and more disadvantaged communities. How big is the problem in the U.S.? You see it more and more in the U.S. There’s a huge body of research that looks at the kind of global contaminants that you’re talking about—groundwater contamination, toxic expulsion from refineries, whatever—in the U.S. It’s definitely [happening] in the U.S., because there’s inequality in the U.S. What causes that? Is it local governments that are corrupt? Or officials who are out of touch with the people their decisions affect? I
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