eco-apartheid

Noun

ecoapartheid (countable and uncountable, plural ecoapartheids)

1. A pattern in which poor and minority populations suffer more from environmental degradation than wealthy people.
   • Hence, the growing ecological sacrifice and segregation (“ecoapartheid”) of the world's people along economic and racial lines have led to charges of environmental racism and calls for environmental justice in countries as economically and socially disparate as South Africa and the United States.2008, Daniel Faber, Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice, page 210