Central Concepts
- What do you think of when you hear the term “environmental justice”?
- Disparate impact of environmental decisions
- Alameda county and 580 freight ban
- Racial gap in life expectancy and respiratory disorder
- Alameda county and 580 freight ban
- Role of research in demonstrating impact and causes
- Bring people into conversation about environments
- Humans and the environment coinciding
- Trying to create an equitable, equal playing field for everyone
- Access to outdoor spaces
- Disparate impact of environmental decisions
- What do you think the concept “environmental justice” implies and is aiming for?
- Implies that there is a systemic problem
- Calls attention to differential impacts
- Goal-oriented concept
- Rejects these paradigms
- Environmental injustice
- Environmental racism
- Mainstream environmental movement
- How does environmental justice relate to the planning of the urban environment and to people’s everyday lives?
Notes
- The professor presented a deductive argument for her perspective of environmental justice which features anthroprocentrism as a descriptive and absolute fact about the entire movement of environmental justice rather than a “most” or “some” argument.
- Several students offered counterexamples to reject the”all” argument, since there are many examples which disagree such as native traditions. The professor rejected these critiques of her position.
- Environmental justice features redress as a core duty.
- Reparations for historical injustices