ENVI 1121

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by Nishu Mallhi13 views·Updated Dec 8, 2022
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  1. Hey guys, Hey guys.
  2. So today I'll be talking about environmental justice as my topic.
  3. Environmental justice is a movement to address the concerns
  4. of poor communities to an unhealthy environment under under
  5. environmental justice,
  6. everyone has the right to participate and contribute to
  7. the environment related issues regardless of their race,
  8. gender, religion and nationality.
  9. Some of the issues include inappropriate access
  10. to healthy food and safe drinking water,
  11. air and water creation.
  12. It's recognized as a cause for action to achieve victories in the
  13. court and fight for communities who have been denied environmental rights.
  14. It's also called environmental racism due to
  15. intentional setting of hazardous raised landfills,
  16. including industries that are built in areas where minority groups live.
  17. For instance, in Alberta,
  18. there's sufficient access to environmental
  19. justice which affects indigenous communities
  20. rather than environmental justice being evident in these areas,
  21. it's embedded in the approval policies by the government.
  22. Some of the examples of an injustice include
  23. Chemical Valley, Chemical Valley, where the area of
  24. first nation groups are surrounded by 50 industrial plants,
  25. covering 40% of Canada's chemical industry.
  26. It has been affecting First Nations, causing them lung issues,
  27. cardiovascular issues.
  28. Also,
  29. the river has been the receptor of 32 major
  30. spills and 300 minus pills between 1974 and 1986.
  31. Another example is the destruction of Africa Will where the city
  32. it's garbage in Africa will spreading toxic
  33. waste hospital don't their medical waste.
  34. At the same time, they built
  35. unwanted facilities in their communities, including including a prison,
  36. a dump and a slaughterhouse.
  37. These are the injustice that minority groups had to
  38. face due to the lack of political powers these
  39. communities had
  40. and I got human rights access to healthy food and water contamination.
  41. For my argument,
  42. first of all,
  43. I agree with this because it's a basic human right allows everyone to
  44. have the same level of agency over the decision that impact their lives
  45. without environmental justice, minority groups that
  46. become the victims of unsafe environments which impact their lives.
  47. Secondly, under
  48. this justice program,
  49. these policies and laws would address the
  50. possible solution to keep the environment clean,
  51. which will result in access to healthy food.
  52. Lastly,
  53. the areas where indigenous people live are exposed to
  54. drinking water contaminants and have no water treatment.
  55. Environmental justice is a great way to highlight these
  56. issues and implementation of water treatment for safe drinking
  57. and the argument that are against us would be legal challenges because
  58. it will be a battle to pass environmental justice as a legislation,
  59. The state's new cap and invest program for
  60. carbon emissions required that 35% of revenue be directed
  61. two Products in overburdened communities.
  62. It can affect every policy across the country that we
  63. have developed that targets those who are in critical areas
  64. lack of funding because Canada's funding is committed to help
  65. poor communities health services and sustaining a safe environment.
  66. It will create a problem as redistributing funding will affect
  67. other partners and other government commitments to their people.
  68. So for a solution,
  69. I believe that there should be more workshops and speakers in school to
  70. raise awareness about these issues for Children and people who are growing old,
  71. secondly education and trainings of representatives and
  72. minority communities to help them give an insight
  73. of benefits of environmental justice and how it's
  74. going to help those communities water at risk
  75. and impacting their lives.
  76. Thirdly,
  77. I got planned more trees in the neighborhoods that
  78. are not green on being affected by the pollution.
  79. It's an issue because it contributes to toxic air climate change,
  80. water contamination.
  81. In many ways, First Nation Reserves
  82. represent the cultural special case of environmental and social inequality.
  83. They shared the disproportionate amount of healthcare scan
  84. basket of getting people sick on the reserves.
  85. I feel like there should be more awareness about these issues,
  86. including more awareness on social media campaigns and guest speakers at school.
  87. And I got reference page over here and this is a form of presentation.
  88. Thank you for watching