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environmental racism

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.12 in modern English

Syllables
en-vi-ron-men-tal racism
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The disproportionate impact of environmental hazards, pollution, and ecological degradation on marginalized and low-income communities and especially on people of color, which occurs for example when those communities are disproportionately settled in environmentally hazardous or degraded environments (with toxic waste, urban decay, etc), or when environmentally hazardous undertakings such as landfills or polluting factories are disproportionately placed near marginalized communities.

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What does environmental racism mean?
The disproportionate impact of environmental hazards, pollution, and ecological degradation on marginalized and low-income communities and especially on people of color, which occurs for example when those communities are disproportionately settled in environmentally hazardous or degraded environments (with toxic waste, urban decay, etc), or when environmentally hazardous undertakings such as landfills or polluting factories are disproportionately placed near marginalized communities.

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