Environmental Justice and Ecological Inequality in Contemporary Global Environmental Literature
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Environmental Justice, Ecological Inequality, Environmental Literature, Climate Change, EcocriticismAbstract
The theme of environmental justice has become an important topic in modern world environmental literature, which indicates the unequal distribution of ecological resources and environmental damages in societies. The marginalised people, especially the Global South and indigenous people, are disproportionately impacted and affected by environmental degradation, climate change, industrial pollution, and resource extraction. The modern environmental literary works address these injustices through emphasizing ecological inequality, social marginalization and the political structures that dominate the environmental decision-making. In novels, essays and ecocritical works, writers have begun to write more and more about environmental racism, climate injustice, and an ethical relationship between humans and nature. This research paper has looked at the way in which environmental justice and ecological inequality are presented in the contemporary global environmental literature. It examines key thematic trends including environmental racism, native ecological awareness, climate displacement, and the Global North South Divide.
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