Humpty Dumpty environmental policies By Paul Driessen
Playing games with language, justice and people's lives - "Environmental justice" is often used to benchmark corporate social responsibility.
“People of color and low-income populations are disproportionately impacted by pollution,” argues Leslie Fields, Sierra Club director of environmental justice.
It’s unjust that people lose their jobs when companies merge or downsize, to cut costs or boost profits, activists claim.
“Every time a child dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned,” for causing global warming, rants UK firebrand George Monbiot. Government leaders “should go to jail” for failing to act more quickly to prevent planetary climate cataclysm, insists Canadian eco-zealot David Suzuki.
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