“Is environmental sustainability a hoax?”

Running Head : Is Environmental Sustainability A Hoax

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Date Environmental sustainability is a hoax by all means . It is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the people . Environmental sustainability is the ability to sustain or maintain physical environmental qualities that are valued and recognized as essential need by man . these qualities may include the environmental aspects that produces renewable resources like the solar energy , fish ,water among others .in addition to this there is the human life and thirdly the human living conditions and

other natural spices like sustainable climate , air and many others . Most people would also wish to maintain their quality of life and the natural aesthetics . This concept of environmental sustainability came about in 1972 .It was introduced by the club of Rome in their book entitled ' the limits to Growth (Peter R and Linda B , 2004

According to (Yadaw 2008 ) this issue of sustaining environment can be attributed to the risk of irreversible loss of environmental qualities people value most . There is the need to sustain our environment , as a matter of fact some environmentalists are using a philosophical thought of : meeting the needs of the day without tampering with their ability of future generations to meet their own needs . This can entail reducing all kinds of wastes like use of less water , electricity and gasoline

Hoax can simply be defined as an attempt to make a certain group of people believe that a false idea is real

Environmental justice can be taken to mean as the critical involvement and treatment of all people fairly regardless of their origin color and race and other considerations with respect to formulation implementation and enactment of environmental laws policies , rules and regulations that govern their way forward to sustaining the environment (Maquita , 2004

The statement that whether environmental sustainability is a hoax can be true . This can be justified by the fact that three are a lot of environmental discrimination that need to be addressed despite some environment based organizations turning a blind eye on such issues . They cover the whole story

First of all there is the concept of environmental racism . This can be explained as a phenomena by which there is either intentional or unintended or unintended putting- up of waste sites that are poisonous and hazardous , landfills and polluting industries in places that communities who inhabited there are mainly African-American ,native Americans ,migrate farm workers , and the poor and the marginalized in the society . These minority groups and the poor are Vulnerable since they are taken to be non-active citizens and weak that cannot air -out their problems or agitate their rights against the poisoning due to fear of loosing their jobs and their survival

It is said that three out of five black and Hispanic Americans lived in places with one or more waste sites or abandoned or uncontrolled toxic waste sites

As a matter of fact , the largest landfill that highly poisonous is located in Emelle , Alabama and other places are...