Ecoapartheid

Quick meaning: Ecoapartheid is a noun meaning A pattern in which poor and minority populations suffer more from environmental degradation than wealthy people.

Meaning

A pattern in which poor and minority populations suffer more from environmental degradation than wealthy people.

Example Sentences

Ecoapartheid is just a speed bump on the road to ecoapocalypse.

If these practices are not directed by and toward principles of equity, then they will almost certainly end up reinforcing patterns of ecoapartheid.

The conflict and contest between the two systems—one based on ecoimperalism, bioimperialism, and ecoapartheid, the other based on earth democracy and biodemocracy, will intensify over the next decade.

Hence, the growing ecological sacrifice and segregation (“ecoapartheid”) of the world's people along economic and racial lines have led to charges of environmental racism and calls for environmental justice in countries as economically and socially disparate as South Africa and the United States.

Word Forms

• ecoapartheids

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include eco-apartheid, apartheid, eco-imperialism, ecoimperialism, privilegism, redlining.

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