It is easy to see how consumption leads to garbage and how garbage leads to the deterioration of the environment. However, another underlying effect is how such production of waste creates environmental injustice. According to David Pellow, garbage is imposed upon vulnerable populations that are forced to live within the proximity of the toxins. Landfills are usually located away from the areas of the affluent and instead placed where individuals on the poverty line reside. Such environmental inequalities impose externalities more to the poor than the rest of society. As Pellow states, these are some of the stakeholders in the game of environmental inequality. However, from what is observed, economic growth produces more consumption and with that garbage. Those living on the poverty line tend to consume less than the affluent, and yet they are the ones who are most affected by the result.
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What goes in, WILL eventually come out
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