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."
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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.............
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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?
to render to each and to all what belongs to them
So you don't possess the right to have a clean, safe environment?
That's right, conservatives hate clean air and water. We have special powers that make us impervious to any harmful effects of pollution...
Right?
By definition conservatives would love and want to conserve clean air and water. Seems like that would fit very nicely into "environmental justice."
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.
"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?
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
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