Environmental Racism: In Response to North Carolina’s Hog Industry

As we have discussed quite often in this class, the effects of harmful environmental policy are often felt disproportionately by minorities. In my classmate’s piece, “North Carolina’s Hog Industry is a Telling Example of Crumbling Tort Law in America”, they describe this phenomenon localized to North Carolina hog farms, and how the majority of hog farm waste is situated near communities of color, where they contend with the stench of putrefying feces year round. The occurrence of racially disparate impacts of environmental policy can be described by the term environmental racism. 

 

The framework of environmental racism holds that access to clean air, water, land, and even food, are restricted on the basis of race to generate another axis of control over minorities. Its effects are highly visible and manifold. Black and Latino children are far more likely to suffer from asthma due to the fact that communities of color are more likely to be situated closer to sources of pollution, and it is often impoverished majority-minority neighborhoods that are the last to receive aid in the wake of natural disasters, most notably after Hurricanes Sandy and Katrina. 

 

In thinking both about climate change and about the state of race relations in the U.S. today, it is imperative that we consider the ways that race and environmental policy intersect, as well as how they are related to other social and political issues. For example, the increased incidence of asthma among people of color means that they are predisposed to require certain kinds of medical care — acquiring inhalers, for example. Given that our current healthcare system privileges those with access to wealth and that racial wealth disparities are quite prevalent, environmental racism’s impacts become even more clear. Looking toward the future, then, any proposed solution or treatment for climate change must address the mechanisms that environmental racism justifies, and rectify the harms it has caused.

 

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