Why Communities of Faith are Concerned with Environmental Justice

Environmental Justice
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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Introduction
Environmental justice is the collective involvement and fair treatment of all people from different races, cultures, and regions concerning implementing and enforcing environmental laws and regulations. With the increase in industrialization across the globe, the rate of environmental degradation and pollution has significantly increased, and this, therefore, poses a significant threat to human and other creatures' life. This essay will analyze why communities of faith are concerned with environmental justice and how values present in particular faith traditions push people to engage in environmental justice.
The increased carelessness of many countries while manufacturing has forced communities of faith to confront the situation through aspects such as explanations of their scriptures to the congregants. Jeffery Scott states that there is a common realm between God, nature, and human beings. Social and political ecology are embedded in the Trinity, inclined toward an ecological democracy (Scott, 2013). Consequently, Hart explains that hope is expressed through faith in Jesus Christ and an invitation to perceive things differently and act accordingly (Hart, 2020). This reasoning brings out an aspect of temperance: the ability to distinguish between needs and wants. According to Salvatierra & Heltzel (2014), inner unity arises from a serenity of spirit that ensures the inners of people are complete. Like the ordered unity, environmental justice has to encompass knowledge of the complex relationship between human life and other living creatures (McFague, 1997)....