Hastings Cent Rep. 2021 May;51(3):23-26. doi: 10.1002/hast.1251.
Facilities that emit hazardous toxins, such as toxic landfills, oil refineries, and chemical plants, are disproportionately located in predominantly Black, Latinx, and Indigenous neighborhoods. Environmental injustices like these threaten just distribution of health itself, including access to health that is not dependent on having the right skin color, living in the right neighborhood, or making the right amount of money. Facilities that emit environmental toxins wrongly make people's race, ethnicity, income, and neighborhood essential to who is allowed to breathe clean air and drink clean water, and thus, who is allowed to be healthy. This can be seen in the environmental crises in Louisiana; Mississippi; Houston, Texas; and Flint, Michigan. Since bioethics purports to concern itself with the principle of justice as applied to individuals and increasingly to populations, the field ought to concern itself more with environmental injustice.
排放危险毒素的设施，如有毒垃圾填埋场、炼油厂和化工厂，不成比例地分布在以黑人和拉丁裔及原住民为主的社区。这些环境不公正现象威胁着健康的公平分配，包括获得不依赖于正确肤色、居住在正确社区或赚取正确金额的健康的权利。排放环境毒素的设施错误地将人们的种族、族裔、收入和社区视为谁有权呼吸清洁空气和饮用水的关键因素，因此，谁有权保持健康。路易斯安那州、密西西比州、德克萨斯州休斯顿和密歇根州弗林特的环境危机就可以看到这一点。由于生命伦理学声称关注适用于个人的正义原则，并且越来越关注人口，该领域应该更加关注环境不公正。
