Essay Question #2
Environmental Justice

After reading the article “Environmental Justice: Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy” in Chapter 5, give succinct answers to the following questions:

  1. What is the environmental justice movement? What does it aim to accomplish?
  2. Who are more likely to be victims of environmental injustice?
  3. What are the two typical responses to calls for environmental justice? What are the reasons that they are weak?
  4. What are the three proposed solutions to environmental injustice and why are they inadequate?

Due: 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, 11/14. No late submission, resubmission or paper copy will be accepted.

This assignment is worth 60 points. If you copy the questions in your answer, they would not be part of the word count.