What is enviornmental Justice?
"The fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. Fair treatment means that no group of people including a racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic group should bear a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and commercial operations or the execution of federal, state, local, and tribal programs and policies."
Enviornmental justice wants equal protection from environmental and public health hazards for all people. No one should have to deal with disproportionate share of negative enviornmental consequences.
Should teachers teach about enviornmental justice?
Students should understand that everybody has a right to clean water and clean air, and nobody has a right to degrade and destroy the environment. I have been learning a lot about the conservation commition in my city because of the location of my dad's building. He had to make sure that while building this project he did not contaminate the surrounding wet lands. He had to put up with a lot of fights within the city and from the city council, but he did more then the adequate amount of testing and found that he would not be contaminating the area. Since the previous owner had the spot co
nsisting of a junk yard, he has cleaned it up quite a bit. They also found that the roofs will have cleaner water flow into the enviornment than the previous junk yard and then the asphalt.
"The fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. Fair treatment means that no group of people including a racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic group should bear a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and commercial operations or the execution of federal, state, local, and tribal programs and policies."
Enviornmental justice wants equal protection from environmental and public health hazards for all people. No one should have to deal with disproportionate share of negative enviornmental consequences.
Should teachers teach about enviornmental justice?
Students should understand that everybody has a right to clean water and clean air, and nobody has a right to degrade and destroy the environment. I have been learning a lot about the conservation commition in my city because of the location of my dad's building. He had to make sure that while building this project he did not contaminate the surrounding wet lands. He had to put up with a lot of fights within the city and from the city council, but he did more then the adequate amount of testing and found that he would not be contaminating the area. Since the previous owner had the spot co
nsisting of a junk yard, he has cleaned it up quite a bit. They also found that the roofs will have cleaner water flow into the enviornment than the previous junk yard and then the asphalt. The picture to the left was the previous junk yard, that was a serious enviornmental hazard. The picture below is the new building that has cleaned up the area of the junk yard and has changed the view of this area.
I found it very important to be learning about this and I think it is very important for students to learn about the safety of the enviornment and the equality of social justice. Students need to know they have the right to drink clean water and breath fresh air; they also need to know that degrading and destorying the enviornment is not right.
http://www.mde.state.md.us/Programs/MultimediaPrograms/Environmental_Justice/ej_intro/index.asp
http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eoeeaterminal&L=2&L0=Home&L1=Grants+%26+Technical+Assistance&sid=Eoeea&b=terminalcontent&f=eea_sgse_env_equity&csid=Eoeea
http://www.mde.state.md.us/Programs/MultimediaPrograms/Environmental_Justice/ej_intro/index.asp
http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eoeeaterminal&L=2&L0=Home&L1=Grants+%26+Technical+Assistance&sid=Eoeea&b=terminalcontent&f=eea_sgse_env_equity&csid=Eoeea
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