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1、公司诉 讼 理由是什么？GREEN JUSTICE: A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICEGREEN JUSTICE: A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE原文及翻译李恒翻译NICOLE C. KIBERTI. INTRODUCTIONEnvironmental injustice is a phenomena that occurs in the United States and around the world in which people of color and of l
2、ower socio-economic status are disproportionately affected by pollution, the sitting of toxic waste dumps, and other Locally Unwanted Land Uses (LULUs). This paper addresses the historical and philosophical backgrounds of environmental injustice and reviews potential legal, practical, and philosophi
3、cal solutions for achieving environmental justice. Initially “environmental justice” was referred to as” environmental racism” because of the disproportionate impact on people of color; however, it is now clear that environmental health risks are foisted predominately on lower income groups of all r
4、acial and ethnic groups. In order to be inclusive, as well as to avoid the extra baggage that comes with calling an act “racist,” practitioners almost exclusively use the term “environmental justice” rather than” environmental racism.” Though a discussion regarding nomenclature may seem superfluous,
5、 in the context of a discussion of the origins and strategies for achieving environmental justice its actually integral. The way that a society assigns a connotation onto of a words denotation has an enormous impact on how a phrase will be interpreted by the general public. Use of the term” environm
6、ental justice” is a step in bringing the issue of constitutional right to live in a healthy environment for all people not just to those who are interested in racial equality. II. WHAT IS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE?The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines” environmental justice” as the f
7、air 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 - including racial, ethnic rococo economic g
8、roups - should bear a disproportionate share of theNegative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and commercial operations or the execution of federal, cal, and tribal programs. Many studies have shown that, over the past 20 years, minorities - African Americans in partic
9、ular - are more likely to live-in close proximity to an environmental hazard. Unfortunately, there are many examples to choose from to illustrate this observation. Colin Crawford, in his book, “Uproar at Dancing Creek,” discusses in great detail the efforts of an entrepreneur to site a new hazardous
10、 waste facility in Noxubee County, Mississippi. Conspicuously, when Crawford compared Noxubee County with other counties in Mississippi, he found that it had the highest annual average unemployment rate from 1970 1993, a high rate of functional illiteracy with only 51.34 percent of its adult populat
11、ion having high school diplomas, and by far the lowest per captaincies in the region. In addition, of the 12,500 people who lived in Noxubee County, 70 percent were African American and poor. Crawford found that sitting of a hazardous waste dump in this poor, largely Minority County was not an accid
12、ent, but a calculated campaign. It pitted the poor African American majority and whites against the minority, but politically powerful, white population in false promise of economic development that would bring new jobs. As Crawford stated, “people who most often bear the dangers of living near the
13、excreta of our acquisitive industrial society are thievery same ones who have been most abused throughout our history.”III. BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTThe official history of environmental justice is approximately 20years old. In 1979, in Houston, Texas, residents formed comm
14、unity action group to block a hazardous waste facility from being built in their middle-class African American Neighborhood. In 1982, environmental justice made news in Warren, North Carolina when a protest regarding the sitting of a PCB landfill in a predominantly African American area resulted in
15、over 500 arrests. The Warren protest was followed by a report by the General Accounting Office which found that three out of four landfills in EPA Region 4 were located in predominately African American areas, even though those areas comprised only 20 percent of the regions population. An additional
16、 report addressing environmental injustice was published in 1987 by the United Church of Christ entitled Toxic Waste and Race in the United States which “found that the racial composition of a community more than socioeconomic status was the most significant determinant of whether or not a commercial hazardous waste facility would be located there.” The People of Color Environmental Leadership Seminar was held in 1991 in Washington D.C. and was attended by
