The Dishonored Series as Environmental and Social Commentary
be grouped into “ one of the world ’ s most destructive industries ,” as the industrial mining industry is known . According to the report “ Dirty Metals : Mining , Communities and the Environment ,” by Earthworks and Oxfam America , the environmental and social costs of metals mining include using as much as 10 percent of world energy , arsenic emissions , cyanide and mercury poisoning , child labour and human rights abuses , as well as vast landscape damage . ( n . p .)
The assumption in Dishonored 2 is that the dust clouds comprise just the silver dust from the mines and sand from the area around it , which would be problematical enough . However , the larger implication is that the clouds contain potentially far worse and more lethal substances , of the types described by Lee . Paul Stretesky and Michael Lynch in their discussion of strip mining for coal assert ,
Environmental justice research is based on the premise that environmental harms are distributed unequally , and that this unequal distribution is explicable with respect to variations in community power and characteristics ( e . g ., income , poverty , race , ethnicity ). In the environmental justice view , eliminating those forms of inequality through the ‘‘ fair treatment of all races , cultures , incomes , and educational levels with respect to the development , implementation , and enforcement of environmental laws , regulations and policies ” ( United States Environmental Protection Agency , 1998 , p . 1 )
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