MA course: Life and Death in a More-Than-Human Anthropocene: Waste in and out of Pericapitalist Sites
MA course @ Institute for Cultural Anthropology & European Ethnology
Institute for Cultural Anthropology & European Ethnology
SfAA Panel: Beyond Environmental Injustice
Essay for the double-panel "Beyond Environmental Injustice", 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 22-27, 2021.
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Andreas_RebmannIt allows for first responders to be able to respond to bio and chem hazards without delay. A simulation they ran of a hazmat response resulted in all patients dying because of a delay in response, and they believe this could happen in a real disaster as well if not for this policy.
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Andreas_Rebmann"Entergy Corp, which operates Indian Point, said that 10 miles 'provides a robust safety margin' and the Fukushima advisory reflected that area's bigger power complex and the lack of information surrounding that accident."
"...Disaster Accountability Project, a nonprofit organization that monitors disaster-response programs and the author of the report, cited the commission's response to the 2011 nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan, in which it reccommended that U.S. citizens within 50 miles evacuate."
Law does more than codify, regulate, and control; it also catalyzes and transmutes, provoking cascading social and cultural effects, particularly when the force of law is informational.