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Robert Bullard (Ed.), The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution.

Publication: Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Publication Date: 01-SEP-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Robert Bullard (Ed.), The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Robert Bullard (Ed.), The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 2005. $18.95 papercover.

As I write this, the Hurricane Katrina disaster in the U.S. Gulf Coast remains fresh in our memories. This ecological disaster affected all classes and races in profound and terrifying ways, but the poor and members of oppressed minority groups suffered much more. Readers of Robert Bullard's new book on environmental justice would not have been surprised and will understand that the actual problem is much deeper. What we learned from Katrina was just the tip of the iceberg. Environmental destruction and its consequences...

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