| 单词 | environmental racism |
| 释义 | > as lemmasenvironmental racism environmental racism n. originally and chiefly U.S. racial discrimination in the development and implementation of environmental policy, esp. as manifested in the concentration of hazardous waste disposal sites in or near areas with a relatively large ethnic minority population. ΚΠ 1987 Washington Post 16 Apr. a7/1 Commercial facilities for the disposal of toxic industrial wastes have been concentrated in areas with relatively large minority populations, demonstrating a pattern of ‘environmental racism’. 1998 San Francisco Chron. (Electronic ed.) 28 Feb. a19 Increasingly, native communities are being targeted as hazardous waste dumps... It's environmental racism. 2007 J. F. Morse Level Playing Field i. 28 Environmental racism creates the unhealthful conditions for many of our children who live in poverty. < as lemmas |
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