Question

The environmental justice movement started because _______.a. Aldo Leopold published The Land Ethic.b. corporate polluters were not serving jail time for breaking environmental lawsc. people realized that environmental damage is not equally distributed among all classes and racial groups; minority and low-income communities tend to contain a much larger share of the environmental damage (such as landfills, incinerators, toxic waste sites, etc.)d. the Environmental Protection Agency was not doing its job

Answer 1

The correct answer is option c." people realized that environmental damage is not equally distributed among all classes and racial groups; minority and low-income communities tend to contain a much larger share of the environmental damage (such as landfills, incinerators, toxic waste sites, etc)".

Step-by-step explanation:

The environmental justice movement was a consequence of The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960 that lead people to realize the health dangers they are exposed to. The exposure of health dangers was particularly prominent for minority and low-income communities, inequality that give rise to the environmental justice movement that looked for equal environmental protection among people. The citizens that joined the movement were mainly African Americans looking for environmental justice.