Environmental Justice Quotes

• Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.

  Van Jones

  Justice, Community, Suffering

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2008.

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• Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.

  Majora Carter

  Mean, Justice, Community

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• Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Justice For All, Racism

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.

  Ralph Nader

  Rights, Essence, Democracy

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• The risks of transporting deadly nuclear waste, the environmental justice impacts and the long-term health effects of both these projects are untenable...We cannot afford to be silent on these important issues.

  James Cromwell

  Impact, Environmental Health, Issues

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• First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.

  Ottmar Edenhofer

  Country, Nature, Oil

  "UN IPCC Official Admits 'We Redistribute World's Wealth By Climate Policy' 15 Shares". www.newsbusters.org. November 18, 2010.

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• We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.

  Barbara Boxer

  Fighting, Justice, Environmental

  "Contesting Ohio electoral votes". Press conference with senator Barbara Boxer (d-ca) and representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones (d-oh), www.globalresearch.ca. January 9, 2005.

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• Even as we continue to carry the banner of civil rights and environmental justice, we've also got to focus on many, many people - for them, life starts with a good job.

  John Hickenlooper

  Jobs, Rights, Justice

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

  Majora Carter

  Justice, Environmental, Development

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2008.

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