EE 295 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Thicket, Sharon Beder, Environmental Racism
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Due to the alleged engineering, safety, and reliability problems, time magazine included the. Pinto on its list of the fifty worst cars of all time. Compared to health & safety, welfare is a much more open ended value. Without a healthy environment any kind of welfare would be essentially impossible. Without all people being assumed approximately equal (at least in terms of opportunities), any kind of welfare would be essentially impossible. Therefore i will assume the value of welfare can be broken into the values: environmental sustainability, social justice. There may be other things you want to add to your sense of welfare, but these two seem to be essential. Another take on social justice is to look at human rights (universal freedoms) proposed in the un human. Among these are freedom: from discrimination, from want, from fear, from exploitation, to develop one"s own potential.
