Environmental justice

By Leah Hartung For environmentalism to be successful and complete, it must include social justice. Environmental degradation and climate change do not affect the population equally: The brunt of t…

Environmental justice is an important part of the struggle to improve and maintain a clean and healthful environment, especially for communities of color who have been forced to live, work, and play closest to sources of pollution.

Drawing upon a long history of anti-racist, feminist, and decolonial struggles, Malini Ranganathan continues our “<a href="http://items.ssrc.org/category/just-environments/" target="_blank">Just Environments</a>” series with an essay that suggests freedom can serve as a powerful analytic through which to reimagine environmental justice. Ranganathan makes the case that a comprehensive understanding of freedom must include (though, crucially, is not limited to) the ability to live in a safe…

The term “climate justice” captures the various ways in which global warming impacts people differently and the approaches that can be taken to address this problem “fairly”. Carbon Brief has asked a range of scientists, policy experts and campaigners from around the world what the term means to them and why they think it is important. Their responses can be found by clicking on the link. 🔗 #climatechange

I was asked to create an infographic displaying the history of Environmental Justice in both the United States and in Maryland. This was to be displayed in print and on the web.I came up with the two tree idea as a result of the disparity in the content…