While environmental ethics and injustices are related, they can also be separate issues at times. Many populations living in poverty or below the poverty line do not have access to basic human rights like clean water, food, and shelter. When environmental issues or disasters occur due to unethical placement of hazardous materials in poor neighborhoods, these populations are often not protected from unfair environmental risks and their living conditions can be made worse. As the world's population grows, there is a rising need for basic resources like water, but not all people have access to clean drinking water, and without experiencing this lack of access firsthand, it can be difficult to truly empathize with those affected.

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From Our readings this week, I believe that environmental Ethics and injustices are related
in many ways while they can also be separate issues at times, they also carry some relations.
From our readings and just from the things we have learned over time we know that all
humans deserve and should have rights to basic things like clean water, food, shelter, etc.
However, as we can see worldwide this isn’t the case. Many populations who live in
poverty or below the poverty line do not have access to these basic things that at times
those of us who have them can take for granted. I think when environmental issues arise, or
disasters happen from unethical placement of say hazardous materials in a poverty driven
neighborhood people can turn a blind eye to it because of the area its in. And to begin with
those who live in areas away from things like this don’t care much because something
like a landfill isn’t near their home or area, somewhat of an out of sight out of mind deal.
There are many that live in these areas that have to deal with companies putting hazardous
waste sites or disposal sites in near their homes which could contaminate their water or
make their living conditions even worse, but they aren’t protected against the unfair
environmental risks.As the worlds population continues to skyrocket, the need for basic
goods continues to rise to meet the consumption requirements of the worlds people. Water
is a basic human right and as Americans, for the most part, we have access to clean, potable
water almost anywhere. When you read an article on a water shortage or an issue in
regards to a lack of or pollution issue with water, it may trigger an emotional response, but
unless you have actually experienced what it is like to not have that available to you, then
you could never fully understand. People from affluent backgrounds have options, if there is
an issue with water and if you have money, there is a workaround. If clean water is not
available, you can buy some at a store, you can have water delivered, you can build
containers to store water for your household etc. When options like this are available to
you, it is hard to feel the impact and truly empathize with a person who might not have
those secondary options available.A human beings set of ethics are driven by the
environment that they were exposed to as a child. When you see nothing but positives and
not only are you basic needs being met with ease, but your luxurious ones too, your care for
environmental ethics could be less than others that don’t have the same good fortune.
However, there are people from these wealthy backgrounds that do take the time and see
the issues of the world and dedicate their lives to trying to fix them. People from these
arenas of life as environmental activists can be very successful as they have direct access
with people who have significant amounts of money to donate. It is all about what the

2. individual person decided to do with there life…“With almost 60% of the world’s
population at risk of death because from one or more of these four categories (and their
causal connections with poor sanitation), we are not very far along the road toward
reaching the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goal 7, target 10 to “halve by
2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water― (UNDP
2003).― (Boylan 2014). We are facing a potential catatrosphe down the line with our
water. We need to to drink and bathe. It is the esential bulding block of human life and the
planet we inhabit. Unless we can all come together from all sides and backgrounds to battle
the issue head on, we will be doing our future generations a grave injustice.