That second definition lends itself to be an excuse for the UN to propose setting up governance bodies that would monitor and sign off on water projects and other activities all over the world. In other words to generate a super national enforcement arm that would make national governments nothing more than provincial governments under UN direction. http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2013/sms...
One such enforcement mechanism agreed to at the Doha conference, is the mechanism for litigation of industrialized countries by developing nations for alleged damage done to them by CO2 emissions since the start of the industrial revolution. http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2013/sms...
It includes the concept of Environmental Discrimination, which is used a justification for redistribution of wealth schemes:
"Are minority communities and individuals burdened with more than their share of environmental risks in this country, while enjoying fewer of the benefits of environmental regulation than others? Is environmental justice policy no different from education, criminal and civil justice, and a host of other socioeconomic institutions in this country in being tainted by the broad brush of race and class discrimination? If not, what besides race and class discrimination could possibly explain these differences in environmental burdens and benefits? What explains the apparent lack of concern for the uneven impact of environmental policies and activities in most of the original federal environmental legislation?'" -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment...
The effort to pass the long overdue Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_P...
has been hijacked by those who would extend the concept to World Government and wealth redistribution. This was fairly easy to do since in the USA, hazardous waste facilities were placed near the homes of the politically least connected. http://www.wcl.american.edu/journal/lawr...
Today, there some serious issues in environmental justice, but that is not what the UN, or the USA, or any other government body seem to want to address under the environmental justice banner.
- The risks imposed on people who had a nuclear power plant built near them. http://news.yahoo.com/fukushima-plant-st...
- People living in other countries having to pay for the mistakes of a nuclear industry. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...
- The risks imposed on people who had hazardous waste facilities built near them. http://www.kingstoncommunitynews.com/opi...
- Children suffering from cancer due to the negligence of industry executives. http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/17748...
- Groundwater contamination [1]
- Contaminated Food [2]
- People forced off their land [3]
- People who had their homes flooded by a Warmist pushing the myth that global warming causes extreme weather. [4]
Too bad the movement is now perverted beyond recognition.
Edit @Hey Dook: <<(low-level tropics) are hurt worse than others>>
That is typical UN propaganda in that it supports their agenda to divide and dominate, but at least in the Northern Hemisphere (where nearly all of the recent climate change has happened), the data contradicts that statement. [5]
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Nope. Actually, it requires constant addition of more CO2 to keep the atmospheric concentrations high, whether it is due to anthropogenic emissions, volcanic activity, or ocean out gassing. [6]
There's currently a major "bust" on the added CO2 effects on the Planet that run totally against the AGW Theory. Research is showing that "biomass" has increased 5% to 10% since 1982. That means that added CO2 could be a very beneficial molecule in our atmosphere (besides creating a negligible warming trend). Biomass is the basis for all of life itself. More biomass is a great "environmental justice" to the Planet. It means that more life has been created. Is that justice?
As for additional benefits from warming of the climate there is all kinds of information from greenhouses that use additional CO2 in their growing processes with absolutely no affects on humans.
I am of the conclusion that humans are a very minor influence to the climate (people by volume take up less than 1/3rd of a cubic mile as a whole and most of our bodies are made up of water. Another major part of us is carbon and plays a big role on the issue at hand). I have also concluded that we are very much a part of nature itself. The very thought of humans "evolving" or being created by a "higher being" through creationism makes no difference. Seems like our existence is justified whether we like it or not. Higher emotions and ingenuity are the only things that separate us from animals and the rest of all living things.
Global climate change looms as a major environmental justice issue of the 21st century. Climate change poses special environmental justice challenges for communities that are already overburdened with pollution and environmentally-related illnesses. As seen in Hurricane Katrina that hit the Gulf Coast, the environmental effects of climate change are real. The adverse impacts fall heaviest on the poor. This deadly pattern occurs disproportionately among African Americans and other people of color across the U.S. who are concentrated in urban centers, coastal regions, and areas with substandard air quality―including ground level ozone.
Mounting scientific evidence documents that human activities are altering the chemical composition of the atmosphere through the buildup of greenhouse gases―primarily carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Changing climates are expected to raise sea levels, alter precipitation and other weather conditions, harm fish and many types of ecosystems, and threaten human health with a . broad set of problems, including heat stress and heart failure, increased injuries and deaths from severe weather such as hurricanes; more respiratory problems from drought-driven air pollution; an increase in waterborne diseases including cholera, and increases vector-borne diseases including malaria and hantavirus; and mental health problems such as depression and post-traumatic stress.
Those most affected must have a voice at the table in shaping the solutions. The following links represent recent articles that have been written on environmental justice and climate change.
Our environment is not limited to the natural world of oceans and forests. It extends to where we live, work, play, and worship. It includes the air that we breathe and the resources available to our communities, as well as the health hazards caused by environmental toxins and degradation.
The Environmental Justice movement is based on the knowledge that environmental racism exists and that a clean environment for all is a human right. To combat environmental justice effectively, there must be freedom from discrimination in policy making and the placement of toxic facilities.
Along with economic equity and environmental protection, environmental justice is a guiding principle in the development of our policies and indicators.
It is just another Commie term to convince you to give up your freedoms.
Amy: What in the world are you talking about? What have you been smoking? Environmental Racism? Egads! That sounds serious. What are we doing? Burning and hanging black holes now? I think that needs further explanation.
Quote from the UN's Own "Agenda 21": "Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level."
I thought so. Hey every one, environmental justice is just another Commie term to convince you to give up your freedoms. And Amy just proved it!
Portland is a hard-core anti-science denier of global warming. Ignore the anti-science trickery and deceptions in his answer here. See below re the scientific reality of human-caused climate change, and the campaign of fossil fuel industry disinformation and psuedo-science.
In answer to the main question, here are two key "justice" issues related to global long term climate change:
1) It is global, so we are all affected, but people in some areas (low-level tropics) are hurt worse than others, and some areas (industrialized northern hemisphere) contribute more than others to the greenhouse gas emissions that are the root of the problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_ef...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cou...
2) It is long term, and our generation is benefiting at the expense of future ones:
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