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FOR THE ARTICLE ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM:

The case about Louisiana's chemical corridor and what sort of struggles and pollutants that the residents of Diamond faced due to being a minority filled neighborhood. Louisiana has a strip that is covered in chemical factories which is extremely harmful to the people who inhabit these neighborhoods near the chemical corridor. Diamond is a case of a neighborhood where Shell gas company moved in and started to pollute and poison the people of Diamond due to chemical emissions in the air. The people of Diamond started to experience illness and an uprising of asthma in their children and cancer all around. The residents of Diamond seemed to be dying off left and right. The Shell company refused to acknowledge the damage that was so obviously happening to the residents because their "testing" showed that they were at the standards set for them. Shell offered to buy out the homes that the residents owned, however, the property value was so low due to Shell that it wouldn't have allowed the residents to get new housing. Eventually after protesting and making the issue a public matter, shell eventually agreed to relocate the residents, (Lerner, 2005)

Lerner, S. (2005). Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

REVIEWING AND THE TALK PAGE ON THE OVERSHOOT ARTICLE

I feel like another good point to make is that overshoot is extremely unsustainable and another way of possibly helping that is by finding a way to use our waste instead of just piling it and shoveling it into the ground. Overshoot, from what I understand, is the collision of the earths possible carrying capacity, land space which grows with our population, and our waste depository which keeps growing every time we add to our landfill.

REVIEWING AND TALKING ON THE TALK PAGE OF THE FENCE LINE COMMUNITIES ARTICLE

I would say that I think that there are a lot of examples of fence line communities that could be given in an article like this. I feel as though it is extremely surface level right now and doesn't dive deep into some of the repercussions that come from being in a fence line community.