Environmental Justice: Some Ecofeminist Worries About A Distributive M

environmental justness Some Ecofeminist Worries About A Distributive ModelABSTRACT Environmental philosophers, policy-makers and community activists who discuss environmental referee do so almost exclusively in terms of mainstream occidental dispersive representatives of social evaluator. Whether the snub is treatment of animals, human health or property, wilderness and species preservation, pollution or environmental degradation, the prevailing and largely unchallenged view is that the issues of environmental justice are for the most part permeating issues. I think this sweeping framing of considerations of environmental justice solely in terms of dispersion is seriously flawed. Drawing on both ecofeminist insights into the inextricable interconnections between institutions of mastery and Iris Youngs work on the inadequacy of distributive models of social justice, I argue for the twofold claim that a distributive model of environmental justice is inadequate and that what is needed is an additional nondistributive model to supplement, complement and in some cases take precedence over a distributive model. IntroductionEnvironmental philosophers, policy-makers, and community activists who discuss environmental justice do so almost exclusively in terms of mainstream Western distributive models of social justice Environmental justice is about the passably or equitable distribution of environmental goods, services, and resources.I think this wholesale framing of environmental justice issues solely or primarily in terms of distribution is seriously problematic. Drawing on both ecofeminist insights concerning the inextricable interconnections between institutions of human oppression and the domination of the natural ... ...as helped me think by dint of my own ecofeminist worries about how issues of environmental justice have been construed. So I use what I take to be the salient features of Youngs critique to sketch both the limitations of such a mode l for environmental issues and the reasons for saying that what is needed is a supplementary nondistributive model.(9) See, for example, my two essays, The Power and the forestall of Ecological Feminism, Environmental Ethics, Spring 1990, vol. 12 (3) 125-146, and A Feminist philosophic Perspective on Ecofeminist Spiritualities, in Ecofeminism and the Sacred, ed. Carol J. Adams (New York Continuum Press, 1993) 119-132.(10) Young 18.(11) Young 4.(12) Anthony Weston, Toward interrupt Problems New Perspectives on Abortion, Animal Rights, the Environment, and Justice (Philadelphia, PA Temple University Press, 1992) 141.