Talk:Environmental justice

Wiki Education assignment: Introduction to Policy Analysis - Summer Session25

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Likely AI generated material

Where do I even begin.

A lot of this article displays strong indicators of LLM use. There are a crapton of edits. I went through some of the big ones; this, this, and this are suspect, other large content edits are borderline suspicious. At this point the whole thing probably needs the gamut of tone/hallucination/source-to-text-integrity review. Gnomingstuff (talk) 22:45, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

The 3 large edits you mention are also coatrack/forks of other articles which don't link the relevant article, such as Queer ecology. I'm going to revert these edits unless someone argues in favor of them here in the next day or two. I also notice group/class editing - Special:Contributions/Ssandhu1990,Special:Contributions/Jessicapalozzi,Special:Contributions/Sahelhamdard,Special:Contributions/KingsburyD,Special:Contributions/Afreen22 all new accounts adding the same source, Miriam Kennet.Dialectric (talk) 18:14, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

(after edit conflict) My initial reading of the three edits shows they're made by low edit-count editors who lean toward editorializing essays rather than encyclopedic content. They're simply far too long for what encyclopedic content they might contain. Given time requirements, it's more practical to delete rather than salvage. —RCraig09 (talk) 18:27, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

The whole 'Critical environmental justice' section is based on just a few authors, and either needs to be condensed or better supported by other scholarship.Dialectric (talk) 22:43, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: HENV 680 Advanced Seminar in Environmental Science WINTER 2026

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Wiki Education assignment: Contemporary Moral Issues

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Wiki Education assignment: Race, Gender, and Medicine

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Wiki Education assignment: ENG 1320 College Writing II

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Wiki Education assignment: Global Poverty and Practice

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A section on Outdoor access

Hi! My name is Hannah, and I am a UCB student studying environmental issues and global poverty; I have been particularly interested in how access to nature is shaped by broader systems of inequality and exclusion. My goal in adding this section is to show that environmental justice issues are not just limited to pollution exposure, but also involve unequal access to environmental benefits, including parks, vegetation, and recreation.

I added a section titled "Outdoor access" underneath the Environmental racism section, which begins by tracing how unequal access to nature in the USA has been shaped historically by Indigenous dispossession, exclusionary conservation movements, segregation, and redlining. I also incorporated research to show how the creation of public lands often relied on the removal of Indigenous peoples, while early conservation and preservationist movements were largely dominated by wealthy elites who shaped ideas about who was to be included in outdoor spaces. I also expanded the article with research on green space inequality that still exists today. My edits highlight how many communities of color and low-income neighborhoods still face barriers to access, like limited park coverage, cost, and transportation barriers. I used research showing how green space can improve mental health and development in children and teens, which shows why outdoor access should be framed as an EJ issue. Overall, my goal was to broaden the scope of the article to include how environmental inequality also includes exclusion from environmental benefits and spaces, as it is a form of disproportionate exposure to environmental harm. Hannahskelso (talk) 17:38, 12 May 2026 (UTC)