Environmental injustice is becoming the new normal – we must resist it – The Mail & Guardian

Environmental injustice is becoming the new normal – we must resist it – The Mail & Guardian

On this World Environment Day, I find myself reflecting less on trees, oceans, and plastic waste, and more on people’s lack of access to clean drinking water and safe sanitation. More particularly, I am thinking about the ways in which systemic environmental injustice is becoming frighteningly normalised by the generalised state of dysfunction in municipalities across South Africa. It is a crisis that is now spreading across historic divisions o…

Cries for Environmental Justice: India at a low 176/180 countries in the 2024 Environmental Performance Index

It is ‘World Environment Day’ once again! Everywhere one witnesses a flurry of ‘activities.’  There is the usual jostle to plant saplings(trees), the plethora of long, boring speeches on the importance of the environment ‘ad nauseam’ and plenty of photo-ops with faces turned towards the cameras. The newspapers are full with advertisements about the environment; several of them are by Government agencies – the very ones who destroy the environmen…