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To: jazusamo

WTF is “Environmental Justice?”


2 posted on 10/25/2010 7:52:54 AM PDT by RockinRight (if the choice is between Crazy and Commie, I choose Crazy.)
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To: RockinRight
WTF is “Environmental Justice?”

Same thing as "Social Justice", only more expensive...............

4 posted on 10/25/2010 7:54:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (WOULD SOMEBODY PLEASE GIVE MEGHAN MCCAIN A BOX OF KRISPY KREMES SO SHE'LL SHUT THE HELL UP?!)
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To: RockinRight

I don’t know but it sure isn’t what they try to say it is.


5 posted on 10/25/2010 7:54:33 AM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: RockinRight
Environmental Justice is a term coined to persuade certain people that they are victims of institutional, governmental, or commercial racism and/or classism.

Thus, if anything...anything...is built near your house or if anything is torn down or cleared away and you can even remotely connect that action with a negative result, no matter how tiny, YOU have been the victim of environmental injustice.

14 posted on 10/25/2010 8:02:15 AM PDT by July4 (Remember the price paid for your freedom.)
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To: RockinRight
WTF is “Environmental Justice?”

Marxism without the beard.

25 posted on 10/25/2010 8:11:30 AM PDT by Mikey_1962 (Obama: The Affirmative Action President. He's shovel ready!)
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To: RockinRight

“The fact is that many racial and ethnic minorities and poor people have to live, work and play in environments that cause them to be sick. Because they do not have the ability to move to other areas or change jobs, they often remain exposed to harmful materials for long periods of time, and suffer from a variety of illnesses.

This isn’t fair, is it? I’m sure you agree that everyone should feel safe where they live, play, go to school, and work! Since something obviously needed to be done, as early as the 1970’s an Environmental Justice movement was begun. Many community organizers and many people who were sick due to unhealthy environments, led efforts to bring attention to the fact that some people were sharing an unequal portion of illness because of where they lived, worked and played. But even with those efforts, little could be accomplished since there were no existing laws that addressed Environmental Justice issues. In 1994, in response to the continuing cries of protesters and demonstrators, President Clinton signed an Executive Order that directed the federal government to address the environmental health threats caused by people having to live, play and work in unhealthy environments.”

http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/justice.htm

So, what it basically boils down to is if you live anywhere near a source of “pollution”, you get another welfare check.


29 posted on 10/25/2010 8:19:37 AM PDT by epithermal
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To: RockinRight

“Economic Justice” is watermelon politics: Green on the outside and Red on the inside.


33 posted on 10/25/2010 8:35:53 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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