Wednesday, December 07, 2011

An Alliance With Portent

Noted by the JS:


The Islamic Environmental Group of Wisconsin will host an interfaith environmental program "Environmental Justice: A Human Rights Issue" from 2-4:30 p.m. Sunday at the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, 4707 S. 13th St.
The free event will include Jewish, Christian and Muslim perspectives on a host of environmental issues with presenters from the Children’s Environmental Health Sciences Core Center in Milwaukee, the Eco-Justice Center in Racine, the Islamic Environmental Group of Wisconsin and other organizations.

"Environmental Justice" is, like "social justice", a deliberately slippery term, designed to confuse those who are not aware of the meaning of the word "justice."

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Justice is here taken in its ordinary and proper sense to signify the most important of the cardinal virtues. It is a moral quality or habit which perfects the will and inclines it to render to each and to all what belongs to them. Of the other cardinal virtues, prudence perfects the intellect and inclines the prudent man to act in all things according to right reason. Fortitude controls the irascible passions; and temperance moderates the appetites according as reason dictates. While fortitude and temperance are self-regarding virtues, justice has reference to others. Together with charity it regulates man's intercourse with his fellow men. But charity leads us to help our neighbour in his need out of our own stores, while justice teaches us to give to another what belongs to him.............

Read more at

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08571c.htm

Dad29 said...

to render to each and to all what belongs to them

Which underlines that there is no such thing as "redistributive" justice, nor "social" justice, nor "environmental" justice.

But that's not the point of the presentation, is it?

Jim said...

to render to each and to all what belongs to them

So you don't possess the right to have a clean, safe environment?

neomom said...

That's right, conservatives hate clean air and water. We have special powers that make us impervious to any harmful effects of pollution...

Right?

Jim said...

By definition conservatives would love and want to conserve clean air and water. Seems like that would fit very nicely into "environmental justice."

neomom said...

Except "environmental justice" has nothing to do with conservation, but everything to do with redistribution of wealth. Which is as far from conservatism as one can get.

Anonymous said...

"Except "environmental justice" has nothing to do with conservation, but everything to do with redistribution of wealth."

So you were opposed to the Bush tax cuts?

neomom said...

You are an idiot anony...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/obamas-kansas-speech-some-suspect-facts/2011/12/06/gIQAUU45aO_blog.html