Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret Flowers Catherine Coleman
The MacArthur grant-winning environmental justice activist's riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for America's most vulnerable, with a new afterword from the author "To Flowers,…
Specifikacia Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret Flowers Catherine Coleman
The MacArthur grant-winning environmental justice activist's riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for America's most vulnerable, with a new afterword from the author "To Flowers, the neglect of the sanitation problem in Lowndes County is as obvious an environmental injustice as the contamination of drinking water in Flint, Michigan." --The New YorkerCatherine Coleman Flowers, a 2020 MacArthur "genius", grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been called "Bloody Lowndes" because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it's Ground Zero for a new movement that is also Flowers's life's work--a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an