Pollution And Social Pollution
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If one would be asked ‘what is harm?’ or ‘what is the major cause of harm to people?’, one would most certainly think of interpersonal violence and the often resulting injuries and death. Such inference would not be surprising since our everyday lives are over-saturated with media headlines, TV shows and literature on crimes conventionally known as violent interpersonal acts such as assault and murder. It is the most visible and obvious crimes that involve direct victims that attract the most attention (Roberts, 2009). While these types of crimes that harm single individuals are important and should not be neglected, there are harms and injustices that result in much more serious consequences involving a much larger number of casualties and fatalities but which rarely provoke public and political outrage and scarcely appear on newspapers (Roberts, 2009; Pemberton, 2007; Hillyard and Tombs, 2007). …show more content…
In this essay, the author
- Opines that the most visible and obvious crimes that involve direct victims are important and should not be neglected, but there are harms and injustices that result in much more serious consequences.
- Describes the ignored or hidden social harms caused by corporations and states, such as the marketing of known faulty products, corporations promoting unsafe and life-threatening substances, the abuse involved in the transportation of live animals, and the international dumping of toxic waste.
- Explains that pollution has affected the general public and local communities. in bhopal, india, in 1984, 3,000 to 5,000 residents lost their lives due to the release of methyl isocyanate by an industrial company.
- Explains that under swedish environmental legislation, 14% of prosecutions were for littering. in britain, 237 shopping trolleys had to be removed from a local river.
- Explains that wildlife may be affected and even endangered by pollution. the inequality of resource use and its consequences are particularly stark in the us and the industrialised north.
- Explains that the us defense department generates more toxic waste than the top 5 chemical corporations combined.
- Explains that in the us, air pollution is primarily caused by industry and car use, trucks and buses being responsible for nearly 75% of the estimated cancer risk from auto-related pollution.
- Explains that us water quality standards are declining and poor health cases caused by the reduced quality of tap water.
- Explains that the us environment suffers from 25 billion pounds of toxic pollutants each year, including lead exposures, which threaten with neurological damage to 2 million us children, especially afro-american children residing in inner-city areas.
- Illustrates how victimisation resulting from pollution may exceed victimization caused by conventional crimes such as assault and murder. the distribution of environmental problems is of growing concern because poor and disadvantaged communities are directly affected by the environmental abuse.
Some examples of such events are marketing of known faulty products, corporations promoting unsafe and life-threatening substances, the abuse involved in the transportation of live animals, the failure to enforce health and safety standards at work, the international dumping of toxic waste and pollution (Roberts, 2009). The list is not exhaustive but this essay will focus on pollution as social harm.
There are numerous instances of pollution across the globe which have affected the general public and local communities. In Bhopal, India, in 1984, 3,000 to 5,000 residents lost their lives due to the release of methyl isocyanate by an industrial company (Croall, 2007).
In the year of 2000, under the Swedish Environmental legislation 14% of prosecutions were for littering and in Britain 237 shopping trolleys were removed from a local river for which a major supermarket was prosecuted (Croall,
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