What is Climate Justice and Why Is It Important?

What is Climate Justice? Climate change, by its very nature, is a societal issue that can disrupt anyone’s everyday life in a variety of ways. However, not all environmental consequences are treated equally, nor are they dispersed in the same way. Climate change has substantial impacts on historically oppressed, underprivileged or disadvantaged groups, from harsh […]

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Covid-19 and Climate Change – Exposing Environmental Injustice 

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INTRODUCTION Years over years scientists and experts are continuously issuing warming about climate change, but the world has seemed blind and deaf to all advice. Consequently, anticipated circumstances with severe consequences are hovering all around the globe. Recorded dominant events that are posing threatening challenges to the inhabitants of the Earth include COVID-19 and CLIMATE […]

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Environment Discrimination and the Importance of Environmental Justice

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INTRODUCTION WHAT IS ENVIRONMENTAL DISCRIMINATION? In between the years of 1970s and 1980s, there was a concept that emerged in the environmental justice movement in the United States. The concept is currently known as environmental discrimination/racism. Environmental discrimination highlights environmental injustice that has been practiced and integrated within the context of policies. Environmental discrimination shows […]

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