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--Alex 13:28, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Removed from Criticism section

Finally, environmental justice activism, like other modes of advocacy, appears incapable of defining a realistic menu of priorities; every fear or grievance demands attention and remedy.

This anon edit is appears to be a personal POV. Alan Liefting 08:30, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Ref to Budapest Workshop

Need a link to the 2003 workshop in Budapest - haven't found anything with Google.

Separate Article for Movement

Hey all, just got here. I think it would be good to separate this article so that there was one for the idea of Environmental Justice and another for the Environmental Justice Movement. A guide might be found in the distinction between Global Justice and the Global Justice Movement. --Ill seletorre 09:37, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree. Environmental Justice as an idea is great, but the movement has a lot of flaws and diversified opinions- the two shouldn't be mixed up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.229.107.215 (talk) 02:52, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

It links to a US General who died well before the EJ movement started. I believe this is an error.

Sure looked that way to me. I just removed the brackets. Envirocorrector 18:52, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
I inserted his middle initial in order to get it to direct to the correct Robert Bullard, and replaced the brackets accordingly. I don't know enough about setting up a disambiguation page, but perhaps one is needed to help keep the legacies of these two gentlemen distinct. Bill.jesdale (talk) 22:40, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

history

affected groups

Changed US Civil Rights Commission to the proper United States Commission on Civil Rights, and provided a hyper link to it's wiki page. Greenopedia (talk) 18:39, 1 February 2010 (UTC)Greenopedia Feb 1, 2010. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Greenopedia (talk • contribs) 18:08, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Not to tell anyone how to edit, but I like this article very much and think it should expanded. Maybe someone could go to the EJ timeline referenced here, or other sources, and include some of the most important dates for the history section. Maybe I will myself, but I don't know as much about this as whoever wrote the page. Envirocorrector 19:54, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Environmental justice outside the USA

There is an absence of information about EJ outside the USA on this page and the 'Environmental justice movement' page. I think it would be useful to create a section on EJ in other parts of the world. However given the current format of this page it would only make sense to add this section in addition to having a blurb about EJ in the USA, for which there is already an article (i.e. Environmental justice movement). Are there any suggestions on how to incorporate this new information? Widdenham (talk) 14:25, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Similar concer to Widdenham

I have a similar concern to Widdenham. Environmental justice is not just about the U.S. and it is not just about racism. Socio-economic class has been ignored in this article. The poor whites in Appalachia suffer from the same problem but it has not been attributed to racial discrimination in published sources. Also note that there is a separate article on Environmental racism and this article should focus on environmental justice. Drawn Some (talk) 16:58, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Quote

I am concerned that the quote in by Edward Lao Rhodes is too long. Do we have his publisher's permission to use it? Drawn Some (talk) 17:01, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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In addition to the template, I wanted to add that Wikisource may be able to publish this content, as they have a special allowance for "manifestos." It may be worth exploring that avenue. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:26, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

An external link I added to this article was deleted for -- I believe -- conflict of interest (COI) issues. I would like to re-add it and explain why I think there is no conflict of interest.

The link I added (http://ej.issuelab.org/research) is for a website which houses a collection of research on Environmental Justice. The website belongs to a nonprofit organization called IssueLab whose purpose is to collect and archive research produced by nonprofits and university-based research centers. The link does not go to IssueLab's home page or any sort of promotional or donations page. It goes directly to the collection on Environmental Justice -- an actual list of research documents. The research was not written or sponsored by IssueLab and we do not benefit financially from an increase in the number of people who view the research. We are a non-profit-seeking organization by definition. Like Wikipedia, IssueLab is a neutral resource; we do not espouse any political views and we include in our archive research produced by a large variety of organizations. The link was added in the spirit of expanding knowledge, what Wikipedia is all about. One of IssueLab's guiding principles is to encourage sharing of and free access to information. Along with the link I included the description "Nonprofit Research Collection on Environmental Justice" so as to make it clear what the link led to. I assure you I was not trying to mislead anyone or promote any sort of commercial website. I was simply trying to offer an additional resource for those who might be interested. I apologize if I appeared to be breaking the rules, but after carefully reading Wikipedia's guidelines on External Links and Conflicts of Interest, I truly believe that I am not.

From Wikipedia's section on External Links: "Some acceptable links include those that contain further research that is accurate and on-topic, information that could not be added to the article for reasons such as copyright or amount of detail, or other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article for reasons unrelated to its accuracy."

IssueLab's EJ collection contains "further research that is accurate and on-topic" and "could not be added to the article for reasons such as...amount of detail."

External Links also includes guidelines on "Links Normally to be Avoided": "Links mainly to promote a website. Links to web pages that primarily exist to sell products or services, or to web pages with objectionable amounts of advertising. Links to sites that require payment or registration to view the relevant content."

The link was added to promote the research, not to promote the website or to sell anything. The site does not require payment or registration.

From the section on Conflicts of Interest:

"A Wikipedia conflict of interest (COI) is an incompatibility between the aim of Wikipedia, which is to produce a neutral, reliably sourced encyclopedia, and the aims of an individual editor.

"COI editing involves contributing to Wikipedia in order to promote your own interests or those of other individuals, companies, or groups. Where advancing outside interests is more important to an editor than advancing the aims of Wikipedia, that editor stands in a conflict of interest."

The aim of IssueLab is to offer another "neutral, reliably sourced" resource. "[A]dvancing outside interests" is not more important to us than "advancing the aims of Wikipedia," which are strongly in line with those of IssueLab.

Finally, the first external link on the Environmental Justice article is to ejnet.org (Environmental Justice & Environmental Racism), another page of additional resources, just like IssueLab. Another external link goes to the site of the Environmental Justice Foundation, a nonprofit just like IssueLab. My added link fits right in with these accepted links.

I hope I've explained the situation clearly and I hope you won't object to my re-inserting the external link. My apologies for the length of this entry.

IssuesRUs (talk) 20:18, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Merge discussion

Environmental justice movement is entirely redundant and should be merged into this one, as Wikipedia is not a dictionary. LegalSkeptic 21:05, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

introduction

where the article talks about causes of environmental injustices, it leaves out personal preferneces of certain groups and or lack of transportation. often times socioeconomic groups are forced to live near for example, highly polluted areas because they work at the place that is causeing the pollution and do not have adequate transportation so are forced to reside near there. also, some groups of people choose to live in more degraded areas due to consumer preferences. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kenne264 (talk • contribs) 18:23, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Are you aware of any citations to the effect that some individuals would choose, all other things being equal, to live in an area with more rather than less environmental hazards? Bill.jesdale (talk) 22:45, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Copyedit

Hello there editors! As per the tag on your article, I am going to attempt a copyedit. I will go section by section generally, and leave lots of notes here about the things I fix, if you see anything you disagree with, or don't think improves the article, feel free to revert me, I won't be offended, honest! :) Please note, I did not check your article for verifiability, only for copyediting purposes (unless quickly checkable) --Despayre (talk) 20:23, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Lead:

- Removed unrelated links as per WP:Overlink, I think it's reasonable to assume people reading this article already have an idea about what "race" and "income" mean
- moved period outside quote, so sentence containing quote ends with a period, as per MOS
- Question for the editors here, if "Environmental justice is abbreviated as EJ, shouldn't it be "Environmental Justice" all the time, with a capital J too? Your article doesn't use it that way, so I've left it, but seems like it should be a capital J, if not, I would suggest removing the "(EJ)" from the lead
- Minor prose fixes
- what is co-modification of land, etc, mean? (maybe this is covered more in the article later...), it might want a little more description, if not in the lead, then certainly in the article (if it's not there already)
Definition:
- added [sic] to "Nation", it shouldn't be capitalized
- updated accessdate in cite, since I read it, it's still there
- removed "'s from blockquote section, not needed, as per WP:MOS
- 2nd Blockquote section altered, changed to numbered list
- edited second blockquote for readability, no prose changes, just formatting
- removed central and eastern wikilinks as per wp:overlink
- removed bot-added link for budapest conference, linked to an "unauthorized" page
- added {{fact}} tag, since bot-added link is wrong, and moved it to where it should go, after the info
- tagged South African EJ link, no page there...
- ARTICLE EDITOR NEEDED HERE!: I thought the dead link was the ref for the quote, but there's a ref note afterwards, so does this quote come from the book cited, or the missing web link??
- caps fix for "environmental justice"
- changed U.S. to US, as per MOS
- Caps fix for the Associate Chair
- unabbreviated NC to North Carolina for non-American readers, added wikilink to directly relevant article
- moved her sentence into the preceding paragraph, her sentence isn't really a paragraph on its own

next section! --Despayre (talk) 21:31, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

well that sucks... power failure... :( lost all my notes here on the next section, but most importantly, the section that deals with Manuel Pastor's report, the report doesn't quite say what are article says it says, it may want to be looked at

History:

- removed "Lamaire Johnson" from end of first paragraph, is that the cite? please add
- changed "69" to "Sixty-nine" as it starts a sentence and it's hard to capitalize a "6", :)
- {{fact}} tag added
- "Bullard's dumping in Dixie" sentence, I don't believe you can just "dump" Bullard in and expect the reader to know who that is, elucidate pls
- Summit moved from Oct, to Sept, as per source
- minor prose edits
- called the mother and father of the EJ movement... by whom?

Advocates:

- linked chromium 6, seems relevant
- "Ms. Brockovich continues to fight for Environmental Justice nationally and internationally to this day", "to this day", will eventually be wrong, also would need a cite, consider using something like "As of 2012, Ms. B. was still strongly involved in... blah blah blah...", flagged, not changed by me

Legislation:

- trimmed some unneccesary text, tightened up the prose a little
- corrected wikilinks
- removed links as per wp:overlink
- added environmental racism wikilink up above too

Initial barriers:

- removed " – privileged whites with the means to enjoy outdoor recreation" from the end of the first sentence, sounds a touch racist, and is uncited. (pleas put it back in if there's a good cite for it though!)
- {{deadlink}} for current cite there
- style/format fixes
- wikilink added for PIMBY

Cost barriers:

- broke run-on sentence into two
- minor prose fixes
- removed last sentence, almost exactly the same as the first sentence... A because of B, therefore A

Contributions of the Civil Rights Movement:

- grammatical error, "neighborhood demonstrations" not "neighborhood, demonstrations"

Existing organizations:

- Talks about the fight being largely based in "the south", for non-Americans, that will likely mean from lower california, all the way across to lower Florida, this might be worded a little more accurately, unless that's what it really means
- black churches? I'm sure there's a better way of saying that, isn't there? (for one thing, I don't think the church is black)
- wikilinked shovel-ready
- dead link, without a source the "ideal" in that sentence seems like bias

Litigation:

- minor prose fixes
- your sentence says "there has not been a case in which a citizen has sued under section 602, which calls into question whether this right of action exists", I don't see why not having happened makes me wonder if it's possible... one day the sun will go nova, because it hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean I don't believe it will anymore... maybe it's just a wording tweak that's needed, or a better explanation of why that is so. No change made here

Affected groups:

- many prose fixes, for tone
- removed unnecessary formatting, caps
- wikilinked cancer alley
- U.S. to US, as per MOS
- {{ambiguous}} tag applied, who's political power? the toxic industry, or the poor neighbourhood's? (I know what you're saying, but it could be expressed more clearly) NO change made by me.

Who is responsible?:

- title added
- This section substantially re-worked, I think it conveys what you were trying to say...
- having said that, it's speculation, and tagged as original, and sin, err, syn ;)

Around the world:

- overlinks removed
- prose trimmed, a little verbose and repetitive
- this first paragraph is sounding a lot like a "defense of gypsies" instead of an EJ paragraph...NO change by me
- that's a lot of assertions for just one reference...
- "...is a large multinational project supported through the FP7 Science in Society budget line from the European Commission." huh? what does this mean??
- South africa sentence, ends with "total waste stream." Should that have "In South Africa." attached to the end of it? or some other modifier? Of the planet? I don't think so, {{vague}} tag added
- ** CONTROVERSIAL ** Removed Canada paragraph, first sentence made no sense, first page of cite argues against what our article says, and our conclusion is speculation about the future, removed, with edit summary "Canada, REMOVED" for easy reversion of you think this needs to stay
- ** CONTROVERSIAL ** removed India and Uzbekestan section, because it's almost a verbatim repeat of the paragraph in the "Affected People" section, removed on its own with an edit summary of "India, REMOVED"
- Prose trimming of Chevron-Texaco incident section
- this sentence "After the company left in 1992, they left aproximately one thousand toxic waste pits open and dumped billions of gallons of toxic water into the rivers" needs work, if they had already left, how did they dump that toxic water? Also repetition of the word "left" with different meanings isn't great sentence structure, I would suggest something like "Before leaving in 1992, they had dumped billions of gallons of toxic water into the local rivers, and after they were gone, it was discovered that almost a thousand toxic waste pits remained unsealed." Assuming that correlates to the source. NO change made by me.
- minor prose touch-ups

Northern to southern:

- repetitive prose trimmed
- Haiti story, prose changes for readability
- formatting for ship name
- minor prose tweaks for tone and readability

That's it! Generally a well written article, not a whole lot of major errors, just a few little things, and a couple of issues that should be looked at. Good job by the editors on this article! --Despayre (talk) 04:31, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

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Archiving talk page

As much if not all of the material on this talk page was dated, I've archived it; it is now accessible (and searchable) via the talk header... DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 11:13, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Including Environmental Injustices?

I think that this article is very informative. However, I feel that this article should represent more of a worldwide view of the subject of justice by exploring environmental injustices. Looking at the impacts on countries in which the United States obtains most of their resources would look into more of the injustices that certain countries and peoples face. I think that this would make the article a bit more well-rounded. It is a very interesting article though! Annkat22 (talk) 16:41, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

History of Environmental Justice

This post is generally informational and covers the basics of Environmental Justice but I have two problems. The first is that there is not enough information about the history of Environmental Justice and the various movements that influenced Environmental Justice. Related to that, the references to Environmental Justice around the world should be prefaced with their specific history and how/if it relates to the United States. Kennedy.aok (talk) 02:03, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Citations and Structure

Hello, overall this is a really good and in depth article on environmental justice. I like how the citations are from a variety of reliable sources and the information comes from books written by experts in the field and not from opinion blogs or other bias sources. However, I think the structure could be improved as the introduction leaves out some of the big picture about where environmental justice fits into society. Also, I don't quite understand how it is structured so i would suggest maybe structuring it chronologically documenting important environmental justice events such as the Flint Michigan lead poisoning event recently. Thank you! Wiki$ (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Critiques of the article

Information to be added: In the background section of Government agencies, it is made out that the USDA does not have any sub-branches supporting it. It should have more breakdown and highlight these sub-groups or an attached link to the USDA.Gov website. In the section: Emergency planning & Right to know Act of 1986, under the Right-to-know movement, it is missing a URL to take you to the page that can further explain that Act.

Quinn SchmidtQuinn Schmidt11 (talk) 23:55, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

For section "around the world"...

In the section titled "around the world", more information should be included under the sections "in australia" and "in ecuador" if information is accessible. In the subsection "in ecuador", a link to a site that does not exist is included and should be removed or replaced. "In Ecuador" also only gives an example of an environmental injustice but does not discuss the topic in the context of Ecuador in broader terms. Adding more information on how environmental justice is perceived/handled in Ecuador might make this subsection stronger. The subsection titled "building of alternatives to climate change" should include a citation after the information given. Slimeman123 (talk) 03:09, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

History Section

This article could use a history section dicussing the evolution of Environmental Justice. Where did the movement start? Examples of successful and maybe not so successful Environmental Justice movements that are tied to the history of it. I see that some of the history has been embedded in other sections of this article, but I think a history over view before you delve into other specifics about Environmnetal Justice would be helpful to informing the reader more on the subject.Kgarvey12 (talk) 03:44, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Fix/add citations and add "access"

There are many areas that require citations and those that do may have broken links. I would like to refer to your subsection "Cost barriers" which cites a magazine only accessible by paid users; in addition to its inaccessibility, the source is not a quality reference.

One section that may be interest to incorporate to the article is the idea of “access” injustices has frequently been discussed as a consequences of humans on the environment, and inversely, back on humans. However, equal access to clean water, air, etc is also an unjust issue that may not be anthropologically induced (i.e. no access to clean water in Middle East b/c lacks funding and resources for desalination) Kimdo1 (talk) 06:20, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Potential Edits

I am interested in addressing several suggestions that have been left on the Environmental Justice article’s talk page, potentially including general organization, writing a history section, adding more citations to several sections of the article, refining citations that require readers to pay a subscription fee to view, and adding more global examples of environmental injustice, including in Latin America. 99.203.26.80 (talk) 03:18, 11 September 2020 (UTC) ebweav

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Section on USDA

The section on EJ at the USDA may be interesting, but seems out of balance for the article as a whole. I would suggest that it be spun off to a separate 'daughter' article. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 11:13, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

I was just looking at doing this. I agree that the section on the USDA is WP:UNDUE. Unfortunately, nearly all the references in this section are from the USDA, and I don't think there are enough secondary sources to establish notability for its own article. The material might be more appropriate in the article on the USDA, but I think it would even be a little unwieldy there. It seems to me that much of it should be cut. Some of it reads like a USDA promotional pamphlet. I'm interested in this article on EJ, and I'd like to move some of this USDA material out of the article, but I'm not sure where to put it. Thoughts?Larataguera (talk) 14:40, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
I have cut the USDA material by about 80%. I think most of the material was a highly detailed and excessively wordy description of internal USDA operation that is not especially notable. If anyone would like to review the material I have cut, it may be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_justice&oldid=1052109238. I am also going to put the edited material into USDA with a note in the talk page as to where it came from in case anyone there has interest in the material I have cut. (It's possible that the section here should be transcluded from the USDA article.) Larataguera (talk) 12:27, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

Proposed reorganization of EJ page

There is a lot of great information on this page, but I think the organization of headings and subheadings could be dramatically improved for readability. I propose moving the "environmental discrimination" section to instead be a subsection of the definition. I also propose adding a section that is US specific, and moving into that section the subheading for hazardous waste (then adding other areas of focus, such as clean air and clean water). Grace.jana07 (talk) 23:22, 17 November 2021 (UTC)grace.jana07

@Grace.jana07: thanks for your interest in this article. I’ve been working on cleaning it up for a while now, but it’s still a mess. It would be great to have some help! Here are my thoughts for continued work on this article:
The article is imbalanced toward coverage of the US. I agree there should be a section specific to the US, but I think it should be a short summary and have a hatnote (main article: Environmental justice in the United States). Then we could move most of the US specific content over to that article. Currently we have ‘Environmental racism in the United States’. I’ve proposed broadening that title, and I see that you have made this suggestion also. Whatever the title, a lot of this article belongs over there. (I think the content should ideally be heavily edited for wordiness and quality before it’s moved to avoid overwhelming that article–it’s a nice article, and I hate to dump a bunch of low-quality content into it).
I do want to add other sections in addition to hazardous waste as you suggest, although I’m not sure ‘clean air’ and ‘clean water’ are the right direction. I was thinking about organizing the headings along the lines of [this article], which would suggest the additional headings ‘resource extraction’ and ‘land appropriation’. (This makes sense to me, because it follows a scheme from a WP:RS, and also because hazardous waste can pollute both air and water, as can resource extraction–so we would be describing the causes of environmental injustice, not the manifestations.)
In short, I've been working on moving US-centered content into the US-centered article and working toward globalizing this article. (As well as correcting flat-out errors, making things more succinct, and improving sourcing). Thanks again for your interest in this article, and I hope you’ll make some contributions! Larataguera (talk) 01:13, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

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Globalize

This article is heavily weighted toward environmental justice issues in the United States, and sections on other countries are very underdeveloped. There is also little mention of international environmental justice issues, such as the dumping of toxic waste in the global south. Unless there are objections, I may move much of this material to an article for 'environmental justice in the United States', and leave only a summary of that material in this article. Then, if material about international EJ issues were expanded, this article would be more balanced.Larataguera (talk) 12:52, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

The proposed merge (above) with Global environmental inequality could help a little, as there is a small amount of more global information there.Larataguera (talk) 12:58, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

The page Environmental Racism in the United States was created about the time I proposed (above) to move US-based content from this article to Environmental justice in the United States, and there is currently a discussion at Talk:Environmental Racism in the United States to move that page to Environmental justice in the United States. Please participate on that talk page. Larataguera (talk) 01:26, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

I agree that there was not enough information regarding how globalization has impacted the international environmental justice issues, it focused too heavily on the US. This view is a bit biased. --Emnh133 (talk) 05:56, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Global environmental inequality into Environmental justice

article is an essay on a topic that is already covered in environmental justice -- shouldn't be a separate article Sadads (talk) 20:54, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Agree. Right to a healthy environment shouldn't be a separate article either for the reason mentioned by Sadads. Sandcherry (talk) 20:50, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

yes

  checkY Merger complete. Klbrain (talk) 17:06, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

Inclusion of Progressivism sidebar template

It looks like this article used to be included in the progressivism series (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Progressivism_sidebar&oldid=531162004) but isn't any more. Do people have any thoughts on removing the template from the article? The inclusion of social justice but not other forms of justice in the template seems questionable, I wonder whether it would be more consistent to just list justice in the template. Zaelzo (talk) 19:33, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Critique of environmentalism section

I was wondering whether some of this content would make more sense in other articles (such as Environmentalism). Perhaps this section could be reframed to focus more on the relationship between environmental justice and environmental ideas and activism more broadly (it could be called "Role in environmentalism" or something like that). Do people have thoughts on that? Zaelzo (talk) 19:43, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Now that I'm thinking about it more, maybe a section on other movements with subsections would make more sense, like this:
Relationship to other movements and philosophies
- Environmentalism (currently Critique of environmentalism)
- Reproductive justice (currently Contributions of the Reproductive Justice Movement)
- Climate justice (currently Climate change)
Zaelzo (talk) 19:58, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
Zaelzo, thanks for your attention to this article. I do think that the critique of environmentalism here should be included in Environmentalism, which has a criticism section that isn't especially good. I think a broader treatment of the relationship between EJ and other movements would also benefit this article, and your suggestion above seems reasonable enough. It would probably help with the organization of the article overall. I hope you will make some more contributions to the article! Thanks Larataguera (talk) 20:15, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
@Larataguera thank you for your input! I made some edits. Zaelzo (talk) 06:17, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

US specific information in lead

Hello EccentricTiger. I am going to remove the US-specific information that you added to the lead. This is a global article, and some of that information might fit in better in the subsection about the US (although that section is already too long!), or at Environmental racism in the United States. I find that there's a consistent creep in this article toward US-centrism, and I have to make a continual effort to keep in global in scope. I do really appreciate your attention to this article, and I think your additions about conflicts in Australia are really helpful. If you'd like to discuss anything, please just leave me a note here. Thanks! Larataguera (talk) 19:14, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

Copyedited and added source

Copy edited and added an environmental justice issue to Peru section. In general, a lot of the countries descriptions can have more primary source information.

Squinn10 (talk) 13:20, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

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