Sometimes evidence of crime is so obvious and overwhelming, that “guilty” is the only rational verdict. That applies to many crimes, especially injustice, including environmental injustice.
One environmental crime is “sacrifice zones,” areas of extreme pollution and toxicity which have been sacrificed to provide certain benefits, except for those who live in those sacrificed zones. It isn’t the rich who have been sacrificed.
Living in sacrifice zones includes daily exposure to substances which cause disease and shortened life-spans. Those who live in such zones cannot afford to live anywhere else. How does one sell a house which is in a sacrifice zone?
People who grow up in sacrifice zones raise children in sacrifice zones, and cannot leave, and the cycle continues. And new toxic facilities are built — where else? — in sacrifice zones. This is environmental injustice, and it is criminal.
