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Mining In Irian Jaya: How Citizens Should Think About Environmental Justice, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer
Mining In Irian Jaya: How Citizens Should Think About Environmental Justice, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer
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"All around me are the facts of my life. But I can't see them, because the way I think gets in the way." I am making a case for environmental justice. We'll explore how questioning our lives and actions helps us grasp environmental justice. I believe environmental justice calls many of us to conceive of our lives in new ways so that we can become true ecological citizens. First, relations between humans and lands need to be articulated, and we need to think of our lives in spatially, temporally and ecologically extended ways. This paper is intended initially as an …