ENV118 Lecture 15: Human Rights as an Environmental Issue
20 Nov 2018
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Focal point of the unit: just as you can"t separate people from place or society from the environment, you cannot separate human rights issues from environmental issues. Human rights is also an environmental issue because: Human rights are dependent on healthy environments; yet environmentalism has often been the cause of human rights abuses. Human rights make visible uneven and unfair distribution of environmental costs and benefits. Human rights enable avenues for advocacy of common ground between environmental and human rights issues. These nuclear testing sites are full of indigenous people, plants, and animals. The concept that deserts are empty is a western misconception. The maralinga tjuratja people were forcibly relocated from their lands for testing, but they weren"t moved far enough as the effects of the blasts were still felt. Led to blindness, illness, and poisoned land. Land was handed back to them on the 18th of. Almost happened in mukaty station, nt for.
