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Slum

slum

1. A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives.

2. (Science: chemical) same as slimes.

Origin: CF. Slump.


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The Iron Hypothesis

... corporations) to continue their unsustainable practices. Carbon pollution tends to be focused in certain areas, which become defacto low-rent slum areas. By "creating" carbon credits, rather than diminishing carbon outputs, we come no closer to justice for the people living in these ...

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by AstusAleator
Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:13 am
 
Forum: Ecology
Topic: The Iron Hypothesis
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