ABSTRACT

This article focuses on the relationships between social justice, environmental justice, and sustainability from the local to global levels. We envision social and environmental justice as involving not only human beings, but also the rights of all species to life and respect. We advocate an ecological justice approach based on the equality and intrinsic value of all existence. This standpoint also forefronts core values and world views of marginalized people and epistemologies, such as Indigenous knowledge systems. With the understanding that there is much heterogeneity among Indigenous communities and individuals, we delve into core commonalities which embrace the perspective that humanity’s relation to the cosmos is ever-salient, that the Earth is a living being, and all species, as interconnected co-habitants of Earth, are intelligent, equal, and divine.

摘要

本文着重于从地方到全球各级的社会正义，环境正义与可持续性之间的关系。我们设想社会和环境正义不仅涉及人类，而且还涉及所有物种的生命和受尊重的权利。我们提倡一种基于所有存在的平等和内在价值的生态正义方法。这一立场也最前沿，体现了诸如土著知识系统之类的边缘化人群和认识论的核心价值观和世界观。了解到土著社区和个人之间存在很多异质性之后，我们深入研究了核心共性，这些核心共性包括以下观点：人类与宇宙的关系是永恒的，地球是生物，所有物种都是相互联系的共同点。地球上的居民，是聪明的，平等的，