{"id":4047,"key":"Bridging_the_social_justice_and_environmental_movements","title":"Bridging the social justice and environmental movements","latest":{"id":1207542,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T22:25:51Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"''' Environmental Issues As A Social Problem: Exploring the Disconnect '''\n\nDoing a Google Search for [http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=bridging+social+justice+and+Environmentalism&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 Bridging Social Justice and Environmentalism] turned up the phrase \"Bridging the Social Justice and Environmental Movements.\" That's it, I realized. This was at the Circle of Life's [http://web.archive.org/web/20080415001659/http://www.circleoflifefoundation.org:80/action/crossroads_project.htm Crossroads Project].\n\n== Climate change and social justice ==\n\nAl Gore's film ''An Inconvenient Truth'' presents action on [[climate change]] as a moral issue, largely because the brunt of climate change will be borne by some of the most vulnerable people in the world, such as [[poverty]]-stricken farmers of the Ganges delta in Bangladesh.{{Verification needed}} The injustice of this is compounded by the fact that these people have made an extremely small contribution to global warming, compared to those in wealthy Western countries.\n\n== Bridging the Disconnect ==\n\nThe CoL [http://web.archive.org/web/20080415001659/http://www.circleoflifefoundation.org:80/action/crossroads_project.htm Crossroads Project] is \"Connecting Environmentalism and Social Justice\" as their graphic indicates, and they are part of the larger movement towards eliminating this dysjunction, to allow us to all work towards a better world together, rather than separately and disjointedly.\n\n== External links ==\n\n* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_justice Definition of Environmental Justice on Wikipedia]\n* [http://web.archive.org/web/20110717005345/http://www.circleoflifefoundation.org/ Circle of Life]\n** [http://web.archive.org/web/20080415001659/http://www.circleoflifefoundation.org:80/action/crossroads_project.htm Crossroads Project] (Potential to invite to [http://www.pielc.org/ E-LAW] or [http://humboldt.org/edsummit/ Ed Encounter]?)\n\n\"an excellent article that addresses your message\" - Jen Majka said about:\n\n* [http://web.archive.org/web/20100404023348/http://www.lipmagazine.org:80/~timwise/palepathology.html Paleness as Pathology]\n\n<!-- {{Socio-stub}}\n\n{{Environment-stub}}\n\n -->\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| description = Climate justice means more than carbon. Appropedia shows how social issues and sustainability are connected.\n}}\n\n[[Category:Environment]]\n[[Category:Justice]]\n[[Category:Environmental justice]]\n[[Category:Poverty alleviation]]"}