The practice of slapping "justice" behind every cause du jour

In today's edition, it justifies the creation of a new office of "Environmental Justice" at the EPA that will be as large as those for clean air and water.

NPR

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Forty years after Warren County, N.C., residents marched to a landfill to try to stop dump trucks, the EPA is creating an office for advancing environmental justice. (Aired on ATC on Oct. 3, 2022.)

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So the EPA will now concern itself with making sure that pollution, or potential environmental risk, will be distributed equitably?


This aside...why do critical thinking people allow activists to slap the term "justice" behind every inane idea or scheme to demand attention and resources? It's mind-numbing and seemingly never ending.