West Nottingham Academy’s Student Environmental Council is working with our local and state conservation partners to support Maryland’s Amendment on Environmental Health and Justice.
The purpose of the Amendment is “to enshrine in Maryland’s constitution all citizens’ right to live in a healthy, healthful environment regardless of community location or economic status.” WNA’s Student Environmental Council (SEC) along with the whole WNA community embrace environmental ethics as ethics of everyday living, and as our SEC motto states, we understand that as humans dependent on a clean environment, we have “’nothing without Earth.” We support this amendment because we understand we need to sustain the earth that sustains all of our lives and because we know that all people in all communities, regardless ethnicity, race, or income level, deserve a healthy and livable environment.
To effectively fight environmental injustices and the existential threat of climate change, to assure the rights of every individual to a healthy and healthful environment, we need more than individual laws. We need a constitutional amendment underpinning them, promoting them, securing them, and allowing vigorous enforcement of them.
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