The Nature of Politics in Environmental Justice

When it comes to energy politics, I think people have this misunderstanding about how it works. We always here in the media that the government is passing some new bill to promote conserving energy or using alternative energy; whether it’s passing some bill that gives people tax breaks for buying certain energy- saving machine or giving start-up businesses capital to get there company started. Also we see in the media that certain environmental issues do not exists like global warming for example.

The way that energy is used in politics is almost an arguing point for both parties. One party would say that this exists, but the other will not. I think people have to understand that the reason this disagreement happen is because of economic reasons. By giving tax breaks to people when the have energy- saving equipment causes the government to comprise on where the money they lose is worth it. But some politicians do not agree with that because it losses them money. Also some of the politicians have huge investments in certain companies that promote green energy and support it, so they would lobby to get certain bills pass so that they can make money for there company.

Energy politics overall, is a huge part of environmental justice due to the policies that surround it. By not having these policies in place, some organization and even communities will have difficulty portraying the things they want to do for the environment.