21 Facts About Environmental justice

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Environmental justice is a social movement to address the unfair exposure of poor and marginalized communities to harms associated with resource extraction, hazardous waste, and other land uses.

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The environmental justice movement began in the United States in the 1980s and was heavily influenced by the American civil rights movement.

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The movement for environmental justice has thus become more global, with some of its aims now being articulated by the United Nations.

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Delegates adopted 17 principles of environmental justice which were circulated at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio.

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Environmental justice has become a very broad global movement, and it has contributed several concepts to political ecology that have been adopted or formalized in academic literature.

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Environmental justice seeks to expand the scope of human rights law which had previously failed to treat the relationship between the environment and human rights.

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Gilio-Whitaker points out that distributive Environmental justice presumes a capitalistic commodification of land that is inconsistent with Indigenous worldviews.

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Khian Sea waste disposal incident was a notable example of environmental justice issues arising from international movement of toxic waste.

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Climate justice has been influenced by environmental justice, especially grassroots climate justice.

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Relative to general environmentalism, environmental justice is seen as having a greater focus on the lives of everyday people and being more grassroots.

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Environmental justice advocates have argued that mainstream environmentalist movements have sometimes been racist and elitist.

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One of the prominent barriers to minority participation in environmental justice is the initial costs of trying to change the system and prevent companies from dumping their toxic waste and other pollutants in areas with high numbers of minorities living in them.

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Environmental justice communities are disproportionately exposed to higher chemical pollution, reduced air quality, contaminated water sources, and overall reduced health.

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Climate change and climate justice have been a component when discussing environmental justice and the greater impact it has on environmental justice communities.

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In recent years environmental justice campaigns have emerged in other parts of the world, such as India, South Africa, Israel, Nigeria, Mexico, Hungary, Uganda, and the United Kingdom.

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European Union is trying to strive towards environmental justice by putting into effect declarations that state that all people have a right to a healthy environment.

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The movement towards equal environmental politics focuses more on who can fight for companies to build, and takes place in the parliament; whereas, in the United States Environmental Justice is trying to make nature safer for all people.

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The country has suffered Environmental justice issues arising from rapid urbanization especially in Nairobi, where the public space, Uhuru Park, and game parks such as the Nairobi National Park have suffered encroachment to pave way for infrastructural developments like the Standard Gage Railway and the Nairobi Expressway.

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The concept of environmental justice was introduced in South Korea among the discussions of environment after 1990s.

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Environmental justice began to be widely recognized in the 1990s through policy making and researches of related institutions.

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Citizen's Movement for Environmental Justice started as a small organization, but it is keep growing and expanding.

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