The Slow Violence

The Slow Violence. If coal mining is allowed to go ahead in the Mabola Protected Environment MPE near Wakkerstroom in Mpumalanga it will result in a predictable form of environmental violence for local communities. Our schools are in crisis.

For if slow violence is typically underrepresented in the media such underrepresentation is exacerbated whenever as typically happens it is the poor who become its frontline victims above all. Both environmental pollution and malnutrition are forms of this slow violence. What is slow environmental violence.

This chapter provides an introduction to the concept of slow violence as indirect and slowly unfolding harm.

The slow violence of sugar. The slow violence that threatens the Marshall Islands threatens us all. AN END TO THE SLOW VIOLENCE OF CREATIVE PLACEMAKING AND GENTRIFICATION. Climate change impacts the most vulnerable atolls on our planet first and the future of the islanders is a global responsibility says Climate Envoy Tina Stege.