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• W2993923584 abstract "Icky oil all over our feet Black waters Our food has run away Plants have gone bad ... IN THESE FEW WORDS FROM HER POEM, THE DISGRACE OF SHELL OIL (SEE p. 10), EIGHT-year-old Mali McGee presents paradigm of environmental victimization better than many academics. We are not just faced with consequences of pollution or contaminated food or land degradation or a loss of biodiversity. Human well-being is threatened in distinct, but related ways that are complex chemically, although simple conceptually. The threat resides first in presence of environmental agents that injure, such as lead, which we perceive generally as an urban problem. Second, it lies in absence of environmental macro- and micro-nutrients that are vital to human survival, leading to conditions such as Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM), which is seen mainly as a rural problem by land degradation. Most important, yet least considered, it lies in synergistic effects between two; for example, iron deficiency can precipitate uptake of lead (see Figure 1). This last aspect is not just relevant in its biological form. Filthy factories are increasingly relocating to remote rural areas where their impact compounds rural nutritional problems. These rural threats are also apparent in towns. Micro-nutrient deficiencies are now a concern in relation to pregnant women in many urban settings, including those from poor areas of London. In Denmark, 75% of adults lack sufficient iodine in their diet. Urbanized endeavors can also create rural problems that return to haunt urban life. In 1996, there were for first time outbreaks of a rural disease, cerebral malaria, in urban regions of India. This is linked with overuse of pesticides, dam-building, and excessive prescription of curative drugs. More graphically, ever-burgeoning shanty towns bring together rural-urban problems creating social synergism that hosts and precipitates biological synergism (Williams, 1997). [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] These threats are not, of course, caused by environment, but by human beings. So let us start by getting our discourse right. We are talking about environmentally mediated hazards. Moreover, outcomes are not principally diseases and health problems--they are first and foremost injuries and justice problems. So-called Minamata disease in Japan can neither be caught nor cured. More properly, term describes an injury resulting from mercury poisoning by known perpetrators. The disease label no doubt contributed to a circumstance whereby it was not until 1995 that compensation was finally awarded. By then, victims were in their seventies. They received about 16,000 [pounds sterling] ($26,600) each for injuries that, had they been by medical negligence, would have attracted payments of anything up to 7 million [pounds sterling] ($11,637,500). Chisso successfully delayed payment for 22 years after initial court ruling. It is crucial to conceptualize what is happening via our in terms of social justice, instead of through medicalized discourse that favors interests of perpetrator, or thoughtless phraseology that creates an impression that the environment is to blame. Hit a child on head with a hammer, causing an intellectual impairment, and event is seen first as a question of justice, with medicine doing its best to mitigate consequences. Drive a car using leaded gasoline, causing intellectual impairments in countless children, and outcome is seen only as a medical problem. A court is not place to deal with medical problems, so redress is unlikely. The purpose of this issue of Social Justice is to challenge conceptualizations that have created such a warped view of environmentally mediated injury, and to change perception of those who suffer from that of sick patients who are simply in need of treatment, to that of environmental victims who deserve justice. …" @default.
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