Environmental Justice: Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy
Environmental Justice: Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy
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环境正义：创造平等，恢复民主
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2002
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K. Shrader
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克里斯汀·施拉德-弗雷切特 (Kristin Shrader-Frechette) 是一位著名的环境伦理哲学家，她为环境正义提出了伦理论证。施拉德-弗雷切特解释了平等、财产权、程序正义、自由知情同意、代际平等、公正补偿和道德英雄主义等基本伦理概念，然后将它们应用于现实世界的社会问题，展示了这些核心概念中有多少对于全球大部分人口来说已经受到损害，其中包括阿巴拉契亚人、非裔美国人、从事危险工作的工人和生活在发展中国家的土著人民。 国家。她认为，解决我们的环境问题有充分且令人信服的理由，污染和资源枯竭等负担需要更平等地分摊。她还强烈主张，我们不仅有强有力的道德基础来解决环境问题，而且这些补救措施需要涉及受影响者的参与，所有公民都有义务参与代表环境正义的行动，在民主国家，最终和真正对公平和公正利用环境负责的是人民，而不是政府。 《环境正义》将严格的哲学学术与对环境和被剥夺公民权利的实际问题的深入了解相结合，是对一个老问题的新看法，并将鼓励那些关注社会正义和环境正义的人们之间的辩论。
Kristin Shrader-Frechette, a well known philosopher of environmental ethics, makes an ethical case for Environmental Justice. Explaining fundamental ethical concepts such as equality, property rights, procedural justice, free informed consent, intergeneration equality, just compensation and moral heroism - and then bringing them to bear on real-world social issues - Shrader-Frechette shows how many of these core concepts have been compromised for a large segment of the global population, among them Appalachians, African-Americans, workers in hazardous jobs and indigenous people living in developing nations. She argues that there are strong and compelling grounds for remedying our environmental problems and that burdens like pollution and resource depletion need to be apportioned more equally. She also argues vehemently that not only do we have strong ethical grounds for remedying environmental problems, but that these remedies need to involve the participation of those affected, that all citizens have a duty to engage in activism an behalf of Environmental Justice and that in a democracy it is the people, not the government, that are ultimately and truly responsible for equitable and fair use of the environment. Combining rigorous philosophical scholarship with a deep knowledge of actual problems in the environment and among the disenfranchised, Environmental Justice is a new look at an old problem and will encourage debate among those concerned with both social and environmental justice.