Enviro- Labor Split

"Nature is the natural substratum from which wealth is also created; contemporously with human labor"
I cannot remember if Engles said this or some other equally smart theorist but it matters not, should it be true ( I believe it is) the struggle for labor justice becomes a natural ally of environmentalists and vise versa. "Ones struggle against oppression (environmental justice) is meaningless unless it is connected to the oppression of others" (Alice Walker). CONNECTED. They in fact become critical components of one anothers struggle. the issue of environmental justice cannot be seperated from the issue of habitat degradation and preservation.

Substratum in this case does not denote an order of lesser importance but instead refers to the base or foundation existing in the same time frame or continuim and having the same,equal presence as labor.
Because the riches of the natural world, mineral, water,flora, fauna etc. were bestowed upon all mankind to be shared in equal parts and measure the withholding and hoarding of the wealth created from these resources is thievery. Same in every way as the theivery committed each time the capitalist extracts profit from the exploitation of anothers labor.
It is in this sense that the wronged parties (the working class) find common cause and overlapping of purpose and logically , it would seem, of membership. Yet we find bougeois values and afliliation amongst so called conservationists and distrust of earnest environmentalists by the working class in general. This must be ended and organizational efforts increased.