Josh sits in his kitchen in the city projects trying to sip his coffee, while inhaling the nauseating fumes wafting from the town dump that was relocated to within a mile of his home. He desperately wishes he could move, but he works two jobs just to make ends meet for his family. Josh lives in the poorer part of the town; the part that is greatly overlooked by local government officials. What might a sociologist call this phenomenon?
Environmental racism is also called environmental injustice. The term came about in the 1970s and 1980s and it is used when injustice and discrimination appears in a realized context.
