Social Justice Research Paper

Environmental justice is very ambiguous term as it denotes the need for not only environmental sustainability but also social liberation. Regrettably, not every citizen, politician or business owner is apprehensive about our wilting global environment. To this very day, there are scholars and politicians that contend that climate change and global warming is the rhetorical vehicle for which liberal propaganda can be transported. Consequently, these same leaders in their lofty positions deny that there is any evidence of global warming and other environmental dangers by undermining the countless research studies by acclaimed scientists. Ignorance to objective quantitative and qualitative findings that justify theoretical claims that global warming …show more content…
Social justice to me was the basis for which all persons within a country with a singular sovereign governing entity could establish equality among all its constituents liberating all oppressed groups from discrimination. Leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Andrew Young, E.D. Nixon, Malcom X and Fannie Lou Hamer are a handful of the various civil rights spokespersons that led the charge towards obtaining voting rights for citizens of color not just African Americans. Voting rights was not the only cause for these leaders to mobilize a vast multitude of disgruntled citizens, but the civil rights movement also highlighted the injustices of discrimination in the fields of public service that includes but is not limited to health care, education, housing and even brought attention to employment prejudices as well. While it took several tumultuous years to achieve their goals, civil rights leaders kept their vision for liberation at the forefront of their mind during their non-violent and peaceful protests which showed the hatred of their counterparts in countless images and videos that had an international reach. To my surprise, the civil rights movement and the environmental justice movement had several instances in which the two differing movements had similarities. Social justice and environmental justice are two liberties that are inseparable as we cannot achieve liberation without the other. There have been disputes that both social justice and environmental justice cannot be achieved at simultaneously; however I beg to differ. Consequently, foundational readings that have established our knowledge in environmental justice within the course have given palpable examples of liberation from environmental racism and institutional