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Title: INX 199Y March 2


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INX 199Y March 2
  • Introduction to the Issue of Environmental
    Justice and Health

2
Class Schedule
  • 110/410 PM Quiz
  • 150/450 PM hand in essays during break
  • 200/500 PM class on environmental justice and
    health
  • 245/545 PM Plan next weeks class divide into
    reading groups and consider questions for debate

3
Introduction to Environmental Justice and Health
  • What are the health issues of most concern?
  • Who is in the forefront of the struggle to raise
    these concerns?
  • What processes do they use to raise concerns?

4
Analysis and Recap of Arguments Presented over
last three classesArguments pro environmental
justice analysis (from reading)Arguments against
environmental justice analysis (from previous
readings)
5
Introduction to Love Canal case
  • In 1978, NYHD identified more than 80 chemicals
    in the Love Canal chemical waste site, with more
    than 8 potentially carcinogenic compounds found
    in the air of LC homes.
  • NY commissioner of Health recommended that local
    residents avoid their basements and stop eating
    home grown produce

6
Love Canal Homeowners Assoc.
  • Alarmed, local residents carried out their own
    informal health survey
  • Asked neighbours to cooperate with NYHD survey,
    and in the process amassed anecdotal information
    about families suffering health effects
  • Lois Gibbs, LCHA leader, mapped location of
    affected families

7
Next Weeks Debate
  • Examine the results of the NYHD study vs. the one
    by the LCHA
  • Half of class reads each article (or both if
    preferred) and prepares answers to the following
    questions
  • Next week, class will divide into groups to
    assemble collective answers to questions and then
    to debate the issue.

8
Questions for Debate
  •   what assumptions do each group make about
    causes, effects and how they are related?
  •        what evidence does each group bring to
    bear on the argument?
  •      how can each type of evidence be faulted?
  •       what arguments are used to support the
    conclusions of each group?
  •       what conclusions does each group draw?
  •    what actions would naturally result from
    each set of conclusions?
  • Who would benefit and who would pay for these
    actions?

9
  • Summary Questions
  • what are the main foci of disagreement
    between the different groups?
  •        what facts are in dispute?
  •        what interpretations differ (based on
    agreed facts)?
  •        what are the underlying differences in
    values?
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