What is the concept of environmental justice trying to examine?
Environmental justice is a movement that developed in the early 1980s in response to inequality of power structures related to resource availability and consumption of natural resources. The movement grew out of hundreds of localized struggles against corporate and government policies that marginalized socio-economic groups and particular races including native peoples, while exploiting energy and natural resources. The environmental justice movement strives to protect all peoples from discrimination and bias, and it demands that people are treated equally regardless of race, nationality, or socio-economic status. Furthermore, the environmental justice movement calls for fair and just governmental policies that promote ethical and responsible land use and resource use policies to promote a sustainable planet for all current and future peoples, as well as for the other living organisms with which we share the space. This includes protecting local and native peoples through the implement
