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born 1946 United States
Robert Doyle Bullard (born December 21, 1946), formerly Ware Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, is an American academic known as the "father of environmental justice" for his work beginning in the 1970s to extend civil rights thinking to issues of environmental inequality.
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America is segregated, and so is pollution.
There is no level playing field. Any time our society says that a powerful chemical company has the same right as a low income family that’s living next door, that playing field is not level, is not fair.
Redlining steals health and wealth. It was bad for America in the 1920s, and its continuing effects are harmful in the 2020s today.
No community, rich or poor, urban or suburban, black or white, should be made into a sacrifice zone or dumping ground.
The Quest for Environmental Justice (2005)
Students and young people have fueled every social movement in the United States, including the civil rights, environmental, antiwar, women's movements.
The Quest for Environmental Justice (2005)
Waiting for government to act is recipe for disaster.
The Quest for Environmental Justice (2005)
The course for justice is not a sprint. It’s more like a marathon or a relay race. You pass the baton to the next generation, and you hope there’s a smooth pass off. At the same time, you don’t leave that next generation to run the race by itself.
Most Americans do not live in a flood plain. Most Americans don’t live where a highway might have torn through and disrupted their lives. Most American kids don’t go to a school across from a chemical plant, but there are many communities where that is a reality.
With its bottom-up approach, this movement has re-defined the term "environment" to include the places where people live, work, play, and go to school, as well as brought attention to how these things interact with the physical and natural world.
The Quest for Environmental Justice (2005)
The environmental protection apparatus is broken and must be fixed. The environmental justice movement has set out a clear goal: to fix this protection apparatus by eliminating unequal enforcement of environmental, civil rights, and public health laws.
The Quest for Environmental Justice (2005)
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