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Zotero bibliography-Sukriti Kapur

The literature presented here has tried to focus on impacts of human health owing to air pollution to better measure environmental injustice.

Fieldnote Mar 20 2023 - 6:18am

AB617 meeting

South LA 

March 9th 2023

Asking community members about stories in south LA (SLA) and any initiatives they are taking

Fieldnote Mar 10 2023 - 2:44pm

Jill started by discussing Environmental injustice

Envt equalities also stem from well-intended advocates in the non-profit sector

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1) ‘New Orleans offers an example of the perpetuation of a “state of emergency” that was initiated by Katrina but has been sustained by ongoing politicoeconomic machinery—a machinery that ultimately needs to “have a disaster” to justify its existence.’

2) “…the idea that they had to stay in a state of heightened response to the pending ‘crisis’- a state they had to already been in for over two years- produced huge anxiety and exhaustion.”

3) ‘This chain of events prompted residents to say things like: We all asked, “Who was meaner: Katrina, Rita or FEMA? And everybody’s pointing at FEMA.” ‘