RossAllana VtP Annotation: toxic blinders

This visualization reinforces the notion that much of humanity doesn't view itself as part of nature, that we think what we put in the ground can't hurt us, that we somehow believe in an impenetrable barrier between ourselves and the physical environment. Or, perhaps, it's more sinister than that- lower income neighborhoods are exposed to toxicity at much higher rates than affluent ones through siting of industry and disposal. This is the same process, but in reverse, bringing the people to the toxicity instead of toxicity to the people.