Environmental Justice Flashcards
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What is environmental justice?
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Securing Our Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment
2
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What is the future generation’s dilemma?
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- whether or not a person sacrifices herself for future sustainability
- the current generation tends to choose actions to their benefit without considering future generations
3
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What is sustainable development?
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Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
4
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What is John Broom’s argument?
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- Future generations have no awareness of what the planet was like before they were born
- environmental damage affects also present generations, not just future ones
5
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What are the Sustainable Developmental Goals?
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- No Poverty
- Zero Hunger
- Good Health and Well-Being
- Quality Education
- gender education
- Clean water and sanitation
- Affordable and clean energy
- devent work and economic growth
- industry, innovation, and infrastructure
- reduced inequalities
- sustainable cities and communities
- responsible consumption and production
- climate action
- life below water
- life on land
- peace, justie, and strong institutions
- partnerships for the goals
(by 2030)
aimed to transform the world
6
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What are the millenium developmental goals?
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The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. (by 2015)
- Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- Promote gender equality and empower women
- Reduce child mortality
- Improve maternal health
- Combating HIV/AIDs, malaria, and other diseases
- Ensure environmental sustainability
- Develop a global partnership for development
7
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What is the 2030 agenda?
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- This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity
- They seek to build on the Millennium Development Goals and complete what these did not achieve.
- They are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, social and environmental.
