Activity 5.1 - Introduction to Environmental Justice

 Environmental Justice: Environmental justice is a political/social justice movement that plans to fix the environmental policies we have in place currently. Many of these policies disproportionately affect people of color across the globe and contribute to poor-quality living areas. The people who are advocating for environmental justice plan on developing and creating a more sustainable way of living. 

(picture:https://www.pennfuture.org/Blog-Item-More-than-Skin-Deep-Environmental-Racism-Justice-and-Pennsylvania)

More than Skin-Deep: Environmental Racism, Justice, and Pennsylvania

Environmental Racism: Environmental Racism is a term used to describe how areas with a high population of people of color tend to have a lower-quality environment compared to their white counterparts. Communities of color on average have lower air quality, increased rates of ocean acidification, as well as prolonged damages after natural disasters.

In a Segregated Chicago, Art Puts Environmental Racism on Display | NRDC

Environmental Equity: Environmental equity is essentially the goal of environmental racism and environmental justice. For environmental equity to exist, everyone would have to have equal footing when it comes to the health of their environment. Essentially it is the idea that everyone has the right to a safe, healthy, and protected environment to live in. (everyone would have good air, water, etc. quality)

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  Part 2: Equality, Equity, and Justice - Heal the Bay

Climate Justice: Climate justice takes into account all environmental problems and advocates for the change and betterment of the environment. It recognizes that some issues affect certain people more than others and is recognized as a political/social movement.

What is Climate Justice?” – Interview! – IYNF – International Young Naturefriends

What I learned: I learned a lot from this assignment because before this I did not know the difference between many of these terms. The only term I was familiar with was environmental racism and my knowledge of it was limited. Something that I noticed while defining the vocabulary words was that in almost all of the definitions I read, many of them involved recognizing how people of color tend to be more affected by these issues versus white people. Initially, I thought that the topic of the environment had very little to do with racism however, I now understand that racial bias plays a big role in the state of our environment.







Citations

“‘What Is Climate Justice?’ – Interview!” IYNF - International Young Naturefriends, 25 May 2021, www.iynf.org/2021/05/what-is-climate-justice-interview. (picture)


Duroff, Sarah. “What Is Climate Justice?” UC Center for Climate Justice, 6 Sept. 2022, centerclimatejustice.universityofcalifornia.edu/what-is-climate-justice.


Environmental Justice and Environmental Racism – Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice. greenaction.org/what-is-environmental-justice.


Green, Mobilize. “Environmental Equity Vs. Environmental Justice: What’s the Difference?” MobilizeGreen, 10 Feb. 2021, www.mobilizegreen.org/blog/2018/9/30/environmental-equity-vs-environmental-justice-whats-the-difference. (source and picture)


Howell, Zaria. “In a Segregated Chicago, Art Puts Environmental Racism on Display.” NRDC, www.nrdc.org/stories/segregated-chicago-art-puts-environmental-racism-display.


“Racial Disparities and Climate Change.” PSCI, 16 Aug. 2020, psci.princeton.edu/tips/2020/8/15/racial-disparities-and-climate-change.


Simmons, Daisy. “What Is ‘Climate Justice’?” Yale Climate Connections, 3 Nov. 2022, yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/07/what-is-climate-justice.


            Ukenye, John. “More Than Skin-Deep: Environmental Racism, Justice, and Pennsylvania.”       Penn Future Blog, 7 July 2021, www.pennfuture.org/Blog-Item-More-than-Skin-Deep-Environmental-Racism-Justice-and-Pennsylvania. (picture)




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