Answer to Question 1
TRUE
Answer to Question 2
Environmental justice refers to the efforts to ensure that hazardous substances are controlled so that all communities receive protection regardless of race or socioeconomic circumstance. Low-income communities and areas with significant minority populations are more likely to be adjacent to waste sites, landfills, incinerators, and polluting factories than are affluent White communities. Studies in California show the higher probability that people of color live closer to sources of air pollution. Another study concluded that grade schools in Florida nearer to environmental hazards are disproportionately Black or Latino. People of color jeopardized by environmental problems also lackthe resources and political muscle to do something about it.
Another continuing problem is abuse of Native American reservation land. Many American Indian leaders are concerned that tribal lands are too often regarded as toxic waste dumping grounds that go to the highest bidder. On the other hand, the economic devastation faced by some tribes in isolated areas has led one tribe in Utah to seek out becoming a depot for discarded nuclear waste.
Adult European beewolf (Philanthus triangulum) feeding on nectar
Some of the fastest growing religions in America are non-Judeo-Christian religions. This photograph
European Cuckoo
Christian Gladu, The Bungalow Company, The Birch, North Town Woods, Bainbridge
A boy walks past a member of the unofficial “community police” in Cruz Grande, Guerrero, Mexico.
European Colonization