Environmental Justice

Environmental justice tackles several questions that people ask. One is, "Who owns this land?" another, "Who is responsible for this land?" It used to be that no one would ask these questions. There was no concept of private property. The Earth was available to all and it was there for humans to live with it (note that I didn't say use it). Everyone had a responsibility for the well-being of the Earth. Now, we need to take responsibility for our Earth. The article on environmental waste last class talked about how companies are paying Native American's to let them store their hazardous waste on their land. Those companies are shrugging off their destruction onto another people, potentially putting them in harms way.