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Environmental Violence /in vīrən men(t)l vī(ə)ləns/

noun [an evolving definition]

1 direct and indirect harm to humans caused by toxic and non-toxic pollutants put into the local (and concurrently the global) ecosystem through human activities and processes.

2 the effects of human-produced hazardous pollution that harms human health

“Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart.”

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 2013

EV’S 3 CRITICAL REALITIES

  • inequality
  • all people affected
  • violent itself, and a trigger to violence

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“Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend;
you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.”

– Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949

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