And the Japanese government has already begun to rectify its environmental insouciance in ways Kerr dismisses as inconceivable.
One step, Dr. Ross writes, would be to begin rectifying the environmental inequality that already consigns the poor to bad air, polluted water and general environmental degradation.
http://epa.gov/ogc/china/initiative_home.htm China's recent rapid economic expansion has created an array of serious environmental problems for that country, which Chinese officials are working to rectify with a solid environmental law framework.
Ultimately, the Nestlé wants to rectify all social and environmental issues embedded in its supply chains.
Executive Order 12898 issued by President Clinton in 1994, which remains in force, directs all federal agencies to take steps to identify and rectify disproportionate health and environmental impacts resulting from their activities, policies, and programs on minorities and low-income populations.
Community organizing is an underexamined, grassroots health promotion approach that empowers and mobilizes community residents to advocate for, and achieve, environmental and policy changes to rectify these structural inequities.
In 1994, President Bill Clinton signed Executive Order 12898, which ordered federal agencies to identify and rectify "disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies, and activities on minority populations and low-income populations".
Nonetheless, future policies developed using our index cannot address ancient environmental misconduct – they can only attempt to rectify current and future destructive practices.
Section 4 will conclude by discussing recent efforts to rectify this neglect, describing several ways in which distributive justice theorists have sought to take account of environmental and social barriers and to address claims for recognition.
