Deeper shades of green: the rise of blue-collar and minority environmentalism in America

Deeper Shades of Green documents the convergence of two great American movements - conservation and the struggle for social justice. Environmentalists, once faulted for ignoring minorities and the poor, are recognizing the need to find common ground. Poor communities of all colors, the worst targets...

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1. Verfasser: Schwab, James (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: San Francisco Sierra Club Books 1994
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Zusammenfassung:Deeper Shades of Green documents the convergence of two great American movements - conservation and the struggle for social justice. Environmentalists, once faulted for ignoring minorities and the poor, are recognizing the need to find common ground. Poor communities of all colors, the worst targets of pollution and waste-dumping, are perceiving that environmental ills are part of their larger fight
Spurred to action out of concern for their families' health and safety, they are bringing new energy and focus to mainstream conservation
As a blue-collar college student, author Jim Schwab worked summers in a Midwest chemical plant and saw its toxic effects on fellow workers. As an environmentalist and urban planner, he was troubled by the relative absence of poor and nonwhite people in the conservation constituency
Beschreibung:XXII, 490 S.
ISBN:0871564629

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