The map below visualizes some of the impacts of this flow of goods, or logistics. We see the effects close up in the Inland Empire, where over a billion square feet of warehouses carpet the region, worsening air quality, health, economic mobility and housing. Some extol the economic value of this traffic in products. Others decry the environmental injustices, which sacrifice surrounding communities, over 80 percent of whom are poor, Black, or Brown.
The pieces in this series highlight the human and ecological costs of how we get our goods, as well as local resistance to the market forces that structure the supply chain.
