Talk:Climate Justice

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If others wish not to have this article in Wikipedia because it appears to be a neologism (new word, contrasted with nonce or one-time term), it could be moved to Wiktionary. I would prefer keeping the page; however, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_neologisms MaynardClark (talk) 15:16, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

• It has been established since 2007 Nov that climate justice and climate ethics are synonymous. Please feel free to improve the climate ethics article. Sgroupace (talk) 06:00, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Hello, I am the author of a new article on ‘Climate Justice’ that was PRODed in December 2009. Though I requested that it be undeleted and the article has been restored, it is still not available via the main search function on Wikipedia. It was specifically intended to be a separate article from the pre-existing ‘Climate Ethics’ article, a goal that is justified on the basis of the following:

The terms “ethics” (taken from Webster’s dictionary to mean “the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation”) and “justice” (“the maintenance or administration of what is just” or the “quality of conforming to law”) are not synonymous terms. Thus, by extension, neither are the terms “climate ethics” and “climate justice” synonymous. While “climate ethics” can be taken to refer to a “new and growing area of research that focuses on the ethical dimensions of climate change” (as the opening line of the current climate ethics article states), climate justice has a different and more specific meaning: Climate Justice is a concept according to which people everywhere deserve to live in safety from climate change; the world’s poor – who are least responsible for climate change - should not suffer the brunt of its impact; and younger and future generations should not have to live out their lives in an increasingly devastated and dangerous environment. I am pushing for the Climate Justice article I submitted to reappear; it is now available in my sandboxUser:JLeland123/sandbox. Thanks. JLeland123 (talk) 11:42, 21 January 2010