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Environmental justice issues

Environmental justice is defined as “the fair and worldwide accepted meaningful

involvement of people regardless of their income, level in the society, color, nationality, and race

with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws,

regulations, and policies” (US EPA, 2021). However, environmental issues have been tabled since

1980 due to the realization that most industries and other disposal companies do injustices to the

environment. Some examples that may be considered environmental injustices include

deforestation, climate change, offshore drilling, and habitat fragmentation. These examples listed

are considered significant environmental issues because they have become a threat to individuals'

shelter and food, water, air, mental health, physical health, and some extent, the income level of

certain disadvantaged groups. As a result of these issues, there has been increased heat, extreme

weather events, poor air quality, and pollution, thus considered environmental justice issues

(Shultz et al., 2020). Efforts have been made to address the issues of environmental injustices by

involving the communities that are hardly hit by the issues in solving these problems so as to ease

the unfair burden of environmental hazards on these communities.

Increasing environmental viability goes hand in hand with redistributing the authority and

power to make decisions back to the vulnerable communities that are hardly hit by the effects of

environmental injustices. Some of the actions that communities must take to realize better

environmental viability include practicing self-education by empowering the voices of the people

in the communities, elevating the voices of the communities, Hold the officials who are responsible

for such injustices into account, acknowledging the damage, and participate in processes to repair

it (US EPA, 2021). Even though the government should be accountable for the environmental

justice issues, there is responsibility at individual levels as well. Preventing environmental

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1 Environmental justice issues Student Name University Course Professor Name Date 2 Environmental justice issues Environmental justice is defined as “the fair and worldwide accepted meaningful involvement of people regardless of their income, level in the society, color, nationality, and race with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies” (US EPA, 2021). However, environmental issues have been tabled since 1980 due to the realization that most industries and other disposal companies do injustices to the environment. Some examples that may be considered environmental injustices include deforestation, climate change, offshore drilling, and habitat fragmentation. These examples listed are considered significant environmental issues because they have become a threat to individuals' shelter and food, water, air, mental health, physical health, and some extent, the income level of certain disadvantaged groups. As a result of these issues, there has been increased heat, extreme weather events, poor air quality, and pollution, thus considered environmental justice issues (Shultz et al., 2020). Efforts have been mad ...
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