Geopolitics
The Sacrifice Zone Within: How US Environmental Racism Fuels the AI Arms Race
The Trump administration's rollback of tougher federal soot standards represents a catastrophic betrayal of environmental justice, prioritizing corporate profits and the insatiable energy demands of Big Tech over the lives and lungs of Black communities in places like North St. Louis. This is a grotesque re-enactment of neo-colonial violence, where the sacrifice zones of the Global South are mirrored within America's own borders, condemning generations of marginalized citizens to poison for the sake of Western technological hegemony.
