This week our co-hosts do a rundown on Environmental Justice, providing an overview on an ascending but still relatively under-reported vein of social justice and youth activism. Further, the YAFT Coalition crew talks about green politics in America and the fate of Disney World as sea-levels rise. As always, our email YAFTSTAAND@gmail.com is open for inquiries and applications and our associated links and sources used for this programme are below. Thank you <3
Ongoing Struggle over the Northern California Fresh Water Pipeline
Sierra Club - https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/sce-authors/u14412/SCC_Water_Report_2019.pdf
Links About Environmental Justice
EPA - https://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice/learn-about-environmental-justice
Columbia University - http://www.columbia.edu/cu/EJ/definitions.html
Natural Resources Defense Council - https://www.nrdc.org/stories/environmental-justice-movement
Power, Corruption, and Lies
Brookings Institute, the Lead-Crime Theory - https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2017/06/01/new-evidence-that-lead-exposure-increases-crime/
Tobacco Control, Collusion on pro-Tobacco Laws - https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/tobaccocontrol/13/3/268.full.pdf
US Department of Defense, 'Climate Change is now a national security priority' - https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2021/01/27/climate-change-is-now-a-national-security-priority-for-the-pentagon/
National Priorities Project, 'US Army single largest polluter in the world' - https://www.nationalpriorities.org/blog/2020/05/04/if-us-military-major-polluter-why-not-green-military/#:~:text=The%20carbon%20intensive%20U.S.%20military&text=In%202017%2C%20the%20Pentagon's%20total,also%20among%20the%20biggest%20polluters.
Market Watch, 'US DoD Largest Employer in the World' - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-military-is-the-largest-employer-in-the-world-2015-06-17#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20Department%20of%20Defense,is%20Wal%2DMart%20Stores%20Inc.
