Environmental damage has three independent root causes that all need addressing

Evidence

In the case of the entrepreneurial frackers, we are inheriting parallel wreckage: Petroleum fracking is doing irreversible damage to our external environment (our woods and fields, our water and sky) while the human frackers are verifiably destroying our interior environment (our minds and hearts, our ability to be and to sit with ourselves and the people we love). These inner and outer environments depend upon each other. Without caring for the former, we cannot do the hard political work of caring for the latter. Nothing less than the future of the world (and our future as non-inhuman beings) is at stake. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 100 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Environmental problems manifest larger structural problems, so EJ must fuse movements; Environmental destruction stems from structural imbalance, not individual villainy — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 617; Fraser’s three status forms map cleanly onto harms suffered by nature — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 466 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Inner and outer environmental damage are causally linked and inseparable #complicates (0.85) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 100