ABSTRACT
The environmental movement often centred on the physical environment and the communitarian one on the body of society. Communitarians mainly concerned themselves with societal building stones: families, schools, neighbourhoods, and the community of communities, on moral and social values and the infrastructure that sustains them. The Communitarian Platform was drafted in a specific context that deserves to be briefly highlighted because understanding the context will help to point out issues that must be taken into account if one is to draw on the approach in other contexts. The Communitarian Platform still applies, but a tad less so as part of its agenda has been served. Communitarians have much work to do when it comes to the question of the connection between equality and the sustainability of communities. Communitarian social justice is alive both to the equal moral dignity of all individuals and to the ways in which they differentiate themselves from one another through their personal decisions.
