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Environmental Justice Movement - Coggle Diagram
Environmental Justice Movement
Goals
Unite local communities through grassroots organizations to challenge government regulations/plans
Bring together social injustices and the environment, as the two are so entertained in our world
Re-unite people with the land, such as the native people who used to care for our forests
Differences from mainstream environmentalism
Historic demographics
Environmentalism
Movement dominated primarily by upper middle-class white males
Environmental Justice
Movement dominated by those facing poverty all over
Movement responsibilities
Environmentalism
Preserve land that is natural
Keep people from interfering in the environment
Environmental Justice
Fix legislative issues targeting specific groups of people disproportionally affected by environmental pollution
Reconnect people to the land
Combat "environmental racism" and pollution redlining
Environment definition
Environmentalism
The places humans are not densely inhabiting, and shouldn't be inhabited by people
These areas are pristine, and must be kept that way
Environmental Justice
The places all around us, where we work, play, and live
The environment includes people, and people are also harmed by environmental pollution
Cascadia Subduction Zone
Impacts
Displaced families
Those without food stores will not be able to eat
This will mean dire things for the impoverished and homeless populations, without any place to go for necessities
27,600 displaced households
The supply chain to the Rogue Valley will by significantly damaged, buildings and infrastructure will be razed, and anything near the coast will face a tsunami
Death and dammage
Approximately $32 billion in economic losses
Earthquake deaths ranging from 650 to 5,000, with
another 600 to 5,000 deaths due to the tsunami
Six major highway bridges are predicted to collapse completely, with many other bridges in jeopardy
The power grid will go down, and because of the transportation issues it will be very hard to get crews in to fix it
Disproportionate impacts
Low income families living paycheck to paycheck, even if they still have a house after the earthquake, won't be able to get access to basic necessities, and cannot flee due to the highway and bridge damages
Possible things to do about it
Investing in earthquake resistant infrastructure/bridges so that the supply chain is not hit as hard and evacuation/aid efforts become more doable
Investing in pro-actively protecting the power-grid system so it isn't hit as hard
What is it
The Big One, a.k.a. the Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake, is the megathrust earthquake that’s expected to happen in the Pacific Northwest at some point, likely within the next 100 years
there is about a 37 percent chance that a megathrust earthquake of 7.1+ magnitude in this fault zone will occur in the next 50 years