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When you live downstream from decisions made by people upstream

I drive past the old chemical plant every day on my way to fill water jugs, and I wonder if the people who made these decisions about where to put poison had to live with the consequences like we do.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Geographic inequality in environmental risk often mirrors power inequality, where those who make harmful decisions are insulated from experiencing their consequences.

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