Sentences with phrase «problems of environmental justice»

They understood that the same type of civic empowerment is necessary to address problems of environmental justice that were needed to confront Jim Crow segregation.

Not exact matches

If you hear someone talking about sin they are more likely talking about big problems like environmental degradation, economic justice, and war, than about issues of personal morality like adultery or gluttony.

Laudato Si, last week's encyclical from Pope Francis, seeks to address a plethora of problems in the modern world — predominately focusing on environmental issues, distributive justice, and perceived problems with consensus developmental economic theory.

The problem has been how to integrate environmental issues into this pattern of concern for justice.

Much less systematic attention — again in the context of the global climate policy debate (as opposed to domestic debates, where thanks to the environmental justice movement the topic is very much in play)-- has been paid to the problem of inequality within nations.

Typically built in or near low - income communities of color, cracking facilities pose both environmental and social justice problems.

Allocating just $ 5 million out of a $ 50 million - plus pot to studying property reuse is a big part of the problem, according to Kim Wasserman, strategy director for the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization in Chicago.

Meanwhile, the community and environmental justice advocates point to studies showing that people living near mountaintop removal sites are at increased risk of developing physical and mental health problems and of dying from cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Economic reforms began to tackle Brazil's foreign and domestic debt head - on, address the problems of poverty and social justice, put the country on a firm economic footing, and finally, strive towards a responsible environmental policy — the latter being hailed as being among the most progressive in the world.

This year, we're particularly interested in finding and honoring films (we'll only give one award, but may give «shout - outs» of some kind to other worthies) that inspire and empower everyday individuals, especially people not traditionally thought of as part of the environmental movement, as well as those that eschew the clichà © s of the genre: talking heads, doom - «n - gloom, and what I call the «Care Bear Ending»: if we all just felt right about environmental problem X, and joined hands, and were kind to each other, and recited inspirational quotes, and signed petitions, green justice and mercy would surely follow.