Photo by Malena Mayorga
PROTECTIONS AND INVESTMENTS FOR SACRIFICE ZONES and ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COMMUNITIES Everyone has a right to breathe clean air and drink clean water. But that right is not afforded to people living next to the engines of the extractive economy: refineries, incinerators, industrial agriculture, etc. The extractive economy has sacrificed communities in exchange for accumulating wealth, resources, and power. The past and present harms done to people living in “sacrifice zones� and environmental justice communities must be rectified and repaired. Our society cannot build a more just and healthy economy if communities continue to be seen as expendable. 26
