Here's What Fracking Can Do to Your Health

Is this picture photoshopped?
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/heres-what-fracking-can-do-your-health

People of Color Are Disproportionately Hurt by Air Pollution

Surprise!

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2014/04/people-color-are-disproportionately-killed-air-pollution/8881/

Call climate change what it is: violence

From our local intellectual spirit guide and Berkeley Grad, Rebecca Solnit.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/07/climate-change-violence-occupy-earth

Toxic Trail

Crazy article about what happens when you "clean up" a Superfund site.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2014/mar/-sp-toxic-waste-silicon-valley-trail

Animation of Fire at Chevron's Richmond Refinery, August 6, 2012

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiILbGbk8Qk 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQMtGZug4PU

Yellow Rain

Here is a very interesting case from Radio Lab where "truth," expertise and justice come into conflict. It's set in Laos which we read about in in the Michael Goldman reading last week. Note that the portion after 20:00 is edited after much controversy to soften the tone of Robert's comments. 

http://www.radiolab.org/story/239549-yellow-rain/ 

Here is where Kao Kalia Yang who translated in the interview responded and offered her own interpretation.

http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/blog/archive/2012/10/science-racism-radiolabs-treatment-hmong-experience

What role do you think the expert played in this story?

What role did the idea of truth play?