id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ikhwgdtvbbhappgrljju4bdks4 Bill E. Lawson The Value of Environmental Justice 2008 4 .pdf application/pdf 2534 150 58 Environmental justice, at least, entails preserving the environment as a global entity, but also making those are part of the solution as full members of the human community and not just the environmental dumping ground for the well-off. I want to focus on item number 3 in the section Meaningful Involvement as my starting point for what environmental justice entails. want to focus, in this article, on environmental stakeholders of color, particularly African Americans in the argue that not only are persons of color (African Americans) often the victims of bad environmental policies, they have a problem feeling responsibility to global environmental concerns. do contend that given the history of racist social interaction there are feelings that whites have more responsibility for harming the planet than do persons of color. they ask: Why should poor persons of color feel any responsibility to participate in environmental programs? ./cache/work_ikhwgdtvbbhappgrljju4bdks4.pdf ./txt/work_ikhwgdtvbbhappgrljju4bdks4.txt