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1 This chapter has reviewed a voluminous quantity of evidence that people of color endure more than their fair share of environmental burden, at root due to structural racism.Where are the environmental burdens in your own community (where you are from or where you go to school)? For example, where is garbage taken? Where are toxic substances transferred, stored, or dumped? Where are industries that produce air or water pollution located?Who lives close to these facilities? Does it fit with the dominant national trend that this chapter describes?

2 Video taken on smartphones has aided awareness of Black Lives Matter in terms of police violence. In what ways do you think technologies do or could enable more significant exposure of and activism around environmental justice concerns today?