#SlowViolence of landscape destruction: More specifically, #fossilfuels require “#sacrificezones” – places that are heavily #polluted or damaged by #industry activities, and whose inhabitants are subject to elevated #health #risks, for the “supposed greater good of economic progress” [49]. The global fossil fuel industry creates multiple such sacrifice zones, often geographically distant from each other, but linked together by global fossil fuel #supplychains.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629623001640
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