That was what I was thinking.
What is even more interesting is this:
http://www.reforminstitute.org/about/AboutAdvisory.aspx
These 2 guys are on the Business & Finance Advisory Committee of the Reform Institute....
Al Zapanta
President and CEO
U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce
Col. Eric Rojo
U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce
So... Cecilia is part of their team to sell Climate Change mumbo-jumbo (perhaps even writing in Spanish?) and these two Chamber of Commerce dudes are probably part of the groups telling us how good all those illegal immigrants are for the economy and why we need McCainiacs shamnesty!
Here is Cecilia’s book intro (”climate colonialism, revolutionary ecology, and environmental commodification”?):
http://books.google.com/books?id=9XqJ3RxhlQ8C
Environmental Justice: Discourses in International Political Economy By John Byrne, Leigh Glover, Cecilia Martinez
Environmental justice is one of the most controversial and important issues in contemporary social science. Volume 8 of the Energy and Environmental Policy series challenges our understanding of environmental justice in a global context. It includes theoretical investigations and case studies by leading authors in the field.
Global forces of technology and the development of global markets are transforming social life and the natural order. These changes require a critical examination of nature-society relations. Increasingly, modernization assigns the risks of modernity to those with the least power and greatest vulnerability to environmental harm.
Conventional environmentalism, which focuses on the critique of the effects of humanity on nature, is struggling with the problem of environmental justice. In particular, it is having difficulty explaining persistent patterns of social injustice that accompany escalating environmental exploitation. As the capacity for environmental destruction expands, broader concerns about environmental injustice have come to the fore, including awareness of threats to whole cultures, ways of life, and entire ecologies.
The volume’s authors consider the links between expanded patterns of environmental injustice and the structures and forces underlying and shaping the international political economy.
Environmental injustice is examined across a variety of cultures in the developed and developing world. Through case studies of climate colonialism, revolutionary ecology, and environmental commodification, the global and local dimensions of the problem are presented.
The latest volume in this important series demonstrates that environmental justice cannotbe reduced to simple parables of indifference, prejudice, or appropriation. It forges an understanding of environmental injustice as a development of international political economy itself. Likewise, initiatives on behalf of environmental justice are seen as elements of broader movements to secure self-determination in a globalizing world.
This book will be of interest to policymakers, energy and environmental experts, and all those interested in the environment and environmental law. It provides new perspectives on the place of environmental justice in international political and economic conflict.
Travis—do you recognize any of these names from khnyny’s post?
These 2 guys are on the Business & Finance Advisory Committee of the Reform Institute....
Al Zapanta
President and CEO
U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce
Col. Eric Rojo
U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce