One type of environmental injustice results from the harvesting of limited resources.
A second type of environmental injustice is the result of ease of use and financial gain.
Explanation:
The human world has significant social inequities between those that have and those that don’t have. Those that don’t have strive to have the same as those that have. Each society that’s in the throes of wanting to develop, or just to survive, depends on its country’s natural resources and what they can afford to buy from others to uplift their standard of living.
Some countries have limited resources. Trade depends on what one has to sell and what someone else wants to buy. If a developing country only has a few resources they will be compelled to harvest whatever resources they have to sell.
One type of environmental injustice results from the harvesting of limited resources.
Forests and animals are harvested in poor countries so that they can satisfy the whims of richer countries. Animals have been driven into extinction because of unfounded beliefs and forests have been razed to provide wood for different uses – often as cardboard for packaging that is later thrown away.
A second type of environmental injustice is the result of ease of use and financial gain. Plastic must be the single most devastating polluting material ever manufactured. Everyone uses plastic in some way and want it because of its convenience and low cost.
Its commonness and cheapness makes it useable in many forms of packaging and container products world-wide. People use the container or packaging and then throw it away. There is little concern on proper disposal. Plastic litters everywhere one travels. It fills rubbish tips and flies about in the wind. It infiltrates into waterways and oceans. It kills animals and fish. It doesn’t degrade readily and masses in quantities that are impossible to manage. Its polluting qualities are immense.
The ease of use of plastic, its cheapness and the money made from its conversion from crude oil is considered more important than the damage that the product does to the environment.
