Another Voice: Military bases are responsible for toxic environments

Environmental racism has been rising because of globalization and capitalism, which encourage people whose businesses create pollution to accumulate financial profit at the expense of disenfranchised communities' health. However, a lesser-known contributor to environmental racism is the military. The very people who pledged to defend our country and the safety of our citizens have made some reckless decisions, one of the most recent being the clandestine incineration of over 20 million pounds of AFFF waste.