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[https://www.treehugger.com/environmental-justice-definition-and-us-history-5180104 by Sharmon Lebby 12/10/21 Treehugger] | [https://www.treehugger.com/environmental-justice-definition-and-us-history-5180104 by Sharmon Lebby 12/10/21 Treehugger] | ||
A web search of Robert Bullard brings up photos of a perpetually smiling man. His appearance is avuncular or perhaps that of a distant relative that you can picture handing out sweets when the parents aren’t looking. However, behind his jovial smile is the author of 18 books and over 13 dozen articles. All of the published works cover a topic for which he has received multiple awards and is considered "the father" of—that is, environmental justice. | A web search of Robert Bullard brings up photos of a perpetually smiling man. His appearance is avuncular or perhaps that of a distant relative that you can picture handing out sweets when the parents aren’t looking. However, behind his jovial smile is the author of 18 books and over 13 dozen articles. All of the published works cover a topic for which he has received multiple awards and is considered "the father" of—that is, environmental justice. | ||
=====Unheralded Environmentalist: Jimmy Carter’s Green Legacy===== | |||
[https://e360.yale.edu/features/jimmy-carter-environmental-legacy by Kai Bird 29/3/23 YaleEnvironment360] | |||
The angry Alaskans gathered in Fairbanks to burn the president’s effigy. It was early December 1978 and President Jimmy Carter was that unpopular in Alaska. A few days earlier Carter had issued an unusual executive order, designating 56 million acres of Alaskan wilderness as a national monument. He did so unilaterally, using a little known 1906 Antiquities Act that ostensibly gave the president the executive power to designate buildings or small plots of historical sites on federal land as national monuments. No previous president had ever used the obscure act to create a vast wilderness area. But Congress was refusing to pass the necessary legislation, so Carter decided to act alone. | |||
