Is protecting the environment incompatible with social justice?

Guardian: It is the stick with which the greens are beaten daily: if we spend money on protecting the environment, the poor will starve, or freeze to death, or will go without shoes and education. Most of those making this argument do so disingenuously: they support the conservative or libertarian politics that keep the poor in their place and ensure that the 1% harvest the lion's share of the world's resources. Journalists writing for the corporate press, with views somewhere to the right of Vlad the Impaler......

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