The environmental justice movement is about how environmental costs are most often a burden of the poor. “Distancing”, as one of the authors calls it, is all about separating consumers from the environmental costs of the things they buy. This separation was in many ways is a response to the grassroots environmental movement that sprang up in rich countries in the 1960’s and 1970’s. The response of capitalists to this movement was not to clean up their ways but to take those environmental costs somewhere else. Over the year, capitalists have found all sorts of ways to prevent consumers from finding out about the environmental costs associated with the production of the goods that they sell. This has lead to movement to shine a light on these tactics and environmental justice organizations are at the forefront of this movement and it has begun to spread world
The environmental justice movement is about how environmental costs are most often a burden of the poor. “Distancing”, as one of the authors calls it, is all about separating consumers from the environmental costs of the things they buy. This separation was in many ways is a response to the grassroots environmental movement that sprang up in rich countries in the 1960’s and 1970’s. The response of capitalists to this movement was not to clean up their ways but to take those environmental costs somewhere else. Over the year, capitalists have found all sorts of ways to prevent consumers from finding out about the environmental costs associated with the production of the goods that they sell. This has lead to movement to shine a light on these tactics and environmental justice organizations are at the forefront of this movement and it has begun to spread world