What is in a person’s environment that is worth protecting? A swamp someone grew up near under threat of being ‘developed?’ A conservation park outside their city being encroached on by migrating families? A new variety of seed replacing a variety their family bred for generations? A community garden overgrown from neglect? For the environmental justice movement, this was a crucial question to answer: what is it that they were fighting for that differed from earlier conservationists? The environment for them was a good place for all to “live, work and play” (Novotny, 2000, as cited in Schlosberg and Collins, 2014 p.360). This emphasis on everyday life highlighted the unjust distribution of environmental burdens on disadvantaged communities. Similarly, a focus on environmental justice shows that while it is true that all of humanity faces climate-based burdens, it does not imply that these burdens have arisen or will affect all of humanity equally. Schlosberg and Collins (2014) describe the rise of the climate justice movement from existing environmental justice principles. They also delineate the ways in which climate justice is conceptualised: ethical debates in academia, targeted policies by elite non-governmental actors, and the deeply layered discourse arising from grassroot social movements.