Talk:Environmental racism

Wiki Education assignment: Urban Pollution and Remediation

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 9 January 2024 and 30 April 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Amusaed (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Lsibuc, Jax2k18.

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Wiki Education assignment: Environmental Politics

This article is currently the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 3 September 2024 and 20 December 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Loloe312 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Bdasacco, Envpol.

— Assignment last updated by Envpoli (talk) 20:06, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Review needed: Relevance, sourcing, and clarity of examples

Several sections in the "Examples by region" part of this article need review.

Nigeria

Describes oil spills and environmental degradation but doesn't connect these to racial disparities.

China

Focuses on e-waste and pollution in Guiyu, but fails to explain how this directly relates to environmental racism.

India

Details the Bhopal disaster without explicitly connecting it to issues of racism.

Russia

Opening sentence makes a bold claim about institutional racism and hazardous waste disposal without clear citation. Sources are paywalled; titles don't clearly indicate relevance to environmental racism in Russia. Statement about effects on Romani people and migrant workers lacks a reliable source.

France

The example of exporting toxic waste (Clemenceau aircraft carrier) doesn't clearly demonstrate environmental racism. It doesn't address the complexities of international waste trade or distinguish between racism and broader environmental injustice.

Proposed actions

- Review regional examples. Ensure each clearly demonstrates environmental racism, not just environmental problems.

- Improve sections by adding information that links issues to racism, with reliable sources.

- Remove sections if we can't establish a clear connection to environmental racism.

- Verify all claims, especially bold ones, are supported by accessible, relevant sources.

- Develop clearer criteria for what constitutes environmental racism, especially in international contexts.

- Consider adding discussion on applying the concept of environmental racism to international relations and trade.

ScriptorVirens (talk) 21:16, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Working on the Environmental racism article and will be Editing two sections

I am working on Wikipedia's Environmental racism article. Environmental racism articles need editing and reliable sources to cite. I'm working on two sections to explain the idea of the article more in a clear way, the two sections are Impacts on health section and the causes section need citation and more information to make it clear so I will be adding sources, information, and remove sentences which don't relate to the article. Loloe312 (talk) 20:46, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Combine this article with Environmental justice?

How do we feel about combining this article with Environmental justice? Many sections of this article are poorly written and poorly sourced, or reference environmental justice more generally rather than environmental racism specifically. Given that environmental racism a subset of the environmental justice movement, it seems like it would be better served as one article instead of two.

As one example, the "Current initiatives in the United States" section says: "Most initiatives currently focusing on environmental racism are more focused on the larger topic of environmental justice", and then goes on to discuss a variety of initiatives related to environmental justice. This material belongs in the Environmental justice article, not a separate Environmental racism article. Stonkaments (talk) 18:14, 1 November 2024 (UTC)