Environmental Hazards - SA

Environmental Hazards

Articles of interest

on San Antonio Environmental Hazards and Management

https://www.sanantonio.gov/PublicWorks/Services/Environmental-Management

…and Lubbock Environmental Hazards

Lubbock Envirnomnental Hazards: https://www.lubbockonline.com/news/20181016/north-and-east-lubbock-residents-share-concerns-of-living-near-environmental-hazards

…and other Environmental Hazards

Pollution Is Killing Black Americans. This Community Fought Back: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/magazine/pollution-philadelphia-black-americans.html?fbclid=IwAR3gbbAojbqxzQHkGPTKoclR0TbUWSHdq6rznUOdMQEL_GVMtXI6Idz8E4M

Environmental racism is killing Americans of color. Climate change will make it worse: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/28/climate-change-enviromental-racism-america?fbclid=IwAR3zT9uSPfMg6UUYJ9zDEroOG57Ipoyqq9aTj1Fv1pigF4u9xbnSJch55t0

Want to Fix the Climate Crisis? Start Listening to Black People: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-29/want-to-fix-the-climate-crisis-start-listening-to-black-people?fbclid=IwAR0b-_vEwUWGGu2j-sopikpulXuRiiTmMYjVZzWwazONdHU1TRyOrMvfWTA

Visualizing Toxic Pollution in Detroit: https://datadrivendetroit.org/files/INT/InternReport_Ayana.pdf

GOAL: "Protect and Preserve!"

Begin the environmental purification of Old Lubbock, starting with areas that contain low economic-value industry activity so that North and East Lubbock communities can breathe, and the Canyon Lakes economic potential be realized. For the great city we aspire to be, there's no room in our economy for cement pulverizing and simple batch plant activity in our city limits. We don't need them, and it's actively destroying lives and land values across an enormous amount of undeveloped acreage in North and East Lubbock.

-the Lubbock Disparity Report

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