Environmental justice is chiefly a political-economic struggle with law as one tool
Evidence
However, our deļ¬nitions of racism and injustice need not be conļ¬ned to juridical notions. As we have written elsewhere, and as illustrated by the Chester case study, the struggle for environmental justice is primarily a political and economic struggle, with law one facet of that struggle. ā Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 333
Categorization
- ADDENDUM: Reframes law as subordinate to political-economic struggle, relevant to both the eco-justice pedagogy thread and any treatment of sacrifice as stabilizing stratification.
- XREF: connects to: EJ advocates lack sufficient power to win justice struggles alone ā Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmentalā¦, 723; Legal remedies consistently fail to aid communities in environmental justice struggles; Environmental degradation makes law necessary for the preservation of freedom ā Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law: An Introduction, 1524 (+1 more)