Democracy has two fundamental values: Individual freedom and liberalism

Democracy offers freedom, but what is missing is collective responsibility

If poverty causes localized environmental destruction, wealth has global impacts.

condition is not getting better as consumption becomes higher. People consume more than they need.

his global imbalance is not only causing global poverty, but also environmental degradation. Therefore, we need a new morality toward the environment.

Politics and power have to be used to foster global justice.

are we really ready to think more about our future?

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nstitutionalizes unequal enforcement, trades human health for profit, places the burden of proof on the “victims” rather than the polluters, legitimizes human exposure to harmful chemicals, pesticides and hazardous substances, promotes “risky” technologies, exploits the vulnerability of economically and politically disenfranchised communities, subsidizes ecological destruction, creates an industry around risk assessment, delays cleanup actions and fails to develop pollution prevention and precaution processes as the overarching and dominant strategy

Environmental racism is also evident at the global level

Endangered people of colour in the industrialized countries of the North have much in common with populations in developing countries that are also threatened by industrial polluters

A disproportionately large share of the workers who suffer under substandard occupational and safety conditions are immigrants, women and people of colour.