The principles of environmental justice say that access to clean air, water and soil and to a healthy, safe, livable community are intrinsic human rights.
There has been a significant amount of research to show that low-income communities face the greatest risks from environmental hazards. They are most likely to live with local sources of industrial pollution concentrated in or near their neighborhoods.
That puts them at higher risk for asthma, cardiovascular and respiratory disease, cancer, and birth defects. And those same communities tend to be stressed by poverty, unemployment etc.
Nect Green Code exists to support local people in their fight for environmental justice.
The Fight for Environmental Justice is Global. The effects of climate change are obvious here and all around the world. Climate change is hastened by greenhouse gas emissions produced by burning fossil fuels. Yet local people throughout the world don’t benefit from the fossil fuel-based economies, and instead suffer ill effects related to climate change.
Deforestation also contributes to climate change. The fight against climate change and for environmental justice is here at home and alongside peoples in the developing world.