Environmental justice is concerned with protecting, promoting and defending the rights of all life on Earth to a healthy, safe and sustainable environment, including access to justice for socio-environmental harms and violations of environmental rights
Acronyms and synonyms
climate justice, earth justice
How to use the term
Environmental justice is often used synonymously with climate justice, and is used particularly to refer to the harms and human rights violations arising from extractivism, pollution and waste
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Example of use of the term or concept
EJ came to popular use in NA in response to environmental racism, in which polluting and extractive industries focused operations in predominantly Black and Indigenous communities