Colin Jerolmack is an assistant professor of sociology and environmental studies at New York University. His first book, The Global Pigeon: How Animals Shape City Life, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.
Colin Jerolmack
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Choking on Poverty: Inequality and Environmental Suffering
In the summer of 1978, a trucking company illegally dumped 31,000 gallons of used transformer oil along hundreds of miles of roads in Warren County, North Carolina. The location was no accident: This was the poorest county in the state, and the majority of its residents were black. Adding insult to injury, the state decided […]
