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Distributive Justice and the Environment

Distributive justice in an environmental context is the equitable distribution of a society's technological and environmental risks and impacts. These burdens include air pollution, landfills, industrial factories, and environmental burdens. Distributive justice is an essential principle of environmental justice because there is evidence that shows that these burdens cause health problems, negatively affect quality of life, and drive down property value. The potential negative social impacts of environmental degradation and regulatory policies have been at the center environmental discussions since the rise of environmental justice. Historically, environmental burdens fall on poor communities that are predominantly African-American, Native-American, Latino, and Appalachian.