Environmental Justice has an intrinsic connection with Disability Justice. Both movements fight against the oppressions that disproportionately harms people from communities and identities pushed to the margins.

Both movements recognize and educate about the effects of economic injustices and isms like ableism, classism, and racism. Colonialism and capitalism, for example, are in favour of unimpeded economic growth and personal profit which leads to the devaluing the inherent worth of ecosystems, land, waterways, and people while exploiting them for wealth. Disabled people are devalued because we may not be as economically “productive” as others, thereby seeing us as without worth and value. Environmental Justice and Disability Justice fight back with the fundamental belief that people and land have inherent worth.

Join us to discuss strategies, both individually and collectively, that we can utilize to improve our interconnected future.

Discussion includes:

• How environmental injustices disproportionately affect marginalized communities.
• The similarity of disability denial and climate silence, both socially organized denial.
• Disabled people being more susceptible to environmental harms and why.
• Examples of environmental harm.
• The intertwined relationship between nature and health.
• Pushing back against the devaluation of lands and peoples.
• The severe and enduring negative impacts on mental health issues by environmental injustices.
• Utilizing Indigenous practices to better care for the land.
• Community care, justice, and sustainability are intrinsically interwoven.
• How to better utilize disabled people in the Environmental Justice movement.
• Prioritizing cross-movement solidarity to work together towards our joined liberation.