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This kind of violence is often built into the physical and social structures of society and becomes evident in its impacts on groups of people or ecosystems over time.
One example might be the John Henryism effect which BBC Future has. Rob Nixon in Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor describes slow violence as a. The slow violence of environmental degradation. This article was first published in the City Press.