Habermann Mateus, Gouveia Nelson
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências, Departamento de Medicina Preventiva, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.
Rev Saude Publica. 2008 Dec;42(6):1105-11. doi: 10.1590/s0034-89102008000600019.
The paper addresses the risk of contemporary technologies in the light of our current technological paradigm, its perception and tolerability, as well as its unequal distribution across society. The fundamental hypothesis, which emphasizes Environmental Justice, refers to hazards that are disproportionately or unjustly distributed across more socially and economically vulnerable groups, which are generally the poor and the minorities affected by the environmental risks posed by modernity. Therefore, vulnerability and the different levels of deprivation act as drivers of the different levels of health across population groups. Although Environmental Justice has initially been observed as a grassroots movement in the United States, its principles showed compatibility with global and local geographical scales. Therefore, the aim of the study was to understand how the risks of contemporary technologies unequally affect the population under the perspective of Environmental Justice.
本文从我们当前的技术范式、其认知和可容忍性以及在社会中的不平等分布的角度探讨了当代技术的风险。强调环境正义的基本假设指的是，危害在社会和经济上更脆弱的群体中不成比例或不公平地分布，这些群体通常是受现代性带来的环境风险影响的穷人和少数群体。因此，脆弱性和不同程度的匮乏是不同人群健康水平差异的驱动因素。尽管环境正义最初是在美国作为一场草根运动被观察到的，但其原则显示出与全球和地方地理尺度的兼容性。因此，该研究的目的是了解在环境正义的视角下，当代技术的风险如何不平等地影响人群。
