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| | My job is to remind people of the global problem |
 | | My claim, here, is only that this movement must find new ways to stand for equity, and that one particularly promising approach, based on asserting equal claims to limited “environmental spaces,” has received too little attention. |
 | | Today, most any environmentalist who claims to be a friend of justice sees it as a suspect device, one by which the rich countries of the world, under the guise of “efficiency,” are trying to establish a carbon-stabilization regime in which they’ll be able to avoid emission cutbacks by buying emissions rights from the poor. |
 | | If it is, and if environmental justice aids it in that comeback, well, then we’ll finally learn what we should have known all along, that the politics of ecology aren’t so very different after all. |
| www.thomhartmann.com /Athanasiou/wholepaper.htm (6725 words) |
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