It is said that the world needs justice and people should behave according to justice. As in an environmental aspect, we have developed laws in order to keep justice. Before the early 1980s in the U.S., huge environmental discrimination existed. Environmental discrimination means that people built factories and dumped trash or dirty water in poor cities rather than any other cities. Different income levels, racial backgrounds, and ethnicity brought widely different air, water and life qualities. People who had to live in dire environmental circumstances stood up against this injustice.

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This means a lot to me as my grandparents live in an area that faces environmental justice.  Korea is now in a situation of handling some trash from nuclear factories.  Like any other nuclear wastes, they were to be buried deeply under the sea.  My grandparents live in the eastern sea side of Korea and the government chose this city as one of the candidates for its burial.  If the nuclear waste gets buried under the sea near their town, the whole city cannot sell fish which is the main business of their city. On the other hand, the government would give funds to the city which would take here.  This is good for cities like theirs since it is not that much of a rich city.

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This is an environmental justice problem because no one would ever say ?Let?s bury the nuclear waste in the river that goes through Seoul?.  They both have people?s life in stake but the waste was given to the poor city not the rich one.