ENVS 2400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Environmental Justice, Abita Brewing Company, Environmental Racism

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September 26th 2017 (d. scott, osgoode legal studies research paper series 2014) Environmental justice is the social movement that focuses on the fairness of environmental benefits and burdens in the processes that determine those distributions. Giving attention to the environmental justice means increasing the voices of poor indigenous communities that result communities to bear more environmental harms. We must pay more attention to this matter along with gender, class, sexuality, waste and disability. Environmental justice focuses on health of the people and protecting their environment, for example they look at how to protect the wilderness and species. The toxics from the transits and the public housing projects and other wastes are affecting the health and lives of people. 1980"s they needed to pay more attention to the dirty industries and waste dumps because they were affecting the population that was surrounded by them.

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