Environmental and Social Justice

The other day I mentioned to a friend that there are more than 200,000 groups on this planet in “environmental and social justice,” which sent the conversation down the rabbit hole about controversies surrounding social justice.  I’ve had this happen before, and so I’m going to stop using this phrase.

Obviously, there is a social component to environmental justice, as the impact of environmental catastrophe falls disproportionately on poorer people.  But “social justice” connotes being “woke,” which isn’t a direction I want to take most of my conversations.