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What Is Environmental Justice? - Ohio University Press
1 IntroductionWhat Is EnvironmentalJustice?David A. McDonaldhe history of Environmental policy in South Africa is a crueland perverse one. Under colonial and apartheid governments,thousands of black South Africans were forcibly removed fromtheir ancestral lands to make way for game parks, and billionsof rands were spent on preserving wildlife and protecting wild owerswhile people in townships and homelands 1 lived without adequatefood, shelter, and clean water. Whites-only policies in national parksmeant that black South Africans could not enjoy the country s rich natu-ral heritage, and draconian poaching laws kept the rural poor from des-perately needed resources (Beinart and Coates 1995; Carruthers 1995).
Introduction: What Is Environmental Justice? 5 This diversity of opinion is not surprising. As the survey literature on environmental theory makes clear, there are simply too many underlying
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