What about environmental justice

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1. If we know, or suspect that toxic chemicals, radiation and a poorly designed environment can cause harm to human health, why are these problems so ubiquitous?

2. Why do they persist?

3. If society followed the public health precautionary principle, we would try to ascertain negative health impacts of chemicals and built environments BEFORE they impacted populations. Clearly we do NOT follow this principle as a society. Why do you think that is?

4. What about environmental justice?

5. Who suffers greater harm as a result of environmental pollution?

6. Why do poor people and brown and black people suffer greater risks from pollution and toxins than society at large?

7. How should public health education, research and practice take this reality into account when planning. programming and policy making?

8. How do corporate interests use the "Tobacco Playbook" to further their own interests at the expense of public health?

9. Provide specific examples that have been revealed in the Flint water crisis that reflect this difficult problem.

10. What can be done to make things better?

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