All blog posts tagged with environmental justice
Navajo/Uranium Issue Update
Earlier this year I wrote an environmental justice piece on the uranium disaster occurring on the Navajo reservation lands and other areas of the Four Corners. I say "occurring", because even though this environmental disaster is largely a product of the Cold War it will continue to plague people of the South Western United States for many years to come. There really isn't a cost effective, safe-n-sound method of disposing of or containing radioactive materials and waste. Traces, if not trov…
Nuclear Energy: Environmental Justice Case Study
The United States has beautiful principles of liberty, equality and justice within our political-social framework. Whether or not we actually uphold those logical, moral principles is another story. It is a fact that our country has been built largely upon the misery and exploitation of certain groups. For example: the mass amounts of African slaves that became the economic bonanza of the colonial period; the large scale ethnic cleansing of indigenous peoples which opened up a land grab for the …
Community Unity
Environmental and social injustice seems to become easier the larger the society is. The more distance you can put between yourself from the problem the less relevant the issue is. A b.s. excuse can be made out of just about anything. One thing that can't be denied is that humans are social individuals and when we wall ourselves off from the rest of the world that is where problems begin. Being unsocial with each other and the world at large is the root of environmental injustice. If a pers…
Earth At Half Mast
As I write this, I am in one of the Butte College Chico Center computer labs. I am looking over a busy street, a parking lot of people coming and going, and the distant, grand backdrop of the foothills. I spy something that invokes a sort of epiphany. One of the beautiful new Earth flags that some fellow Butte College Sustainability Studies students helped raise funds to purchase, is hanging about half mast below the American flag. Is this simply an issue of patriotism and codes of cond…
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