Kevin Michael DeLuca (2007), 'A Wilderness Environmentalism Manifesto: Contesting the Infinite Self-Absorption of Humans', in R. Sandler and P. Pezzullo (eds), Environmental Justice and Environmentalism, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, pp. 27-56.

For the past two decades, the core of the environmental movement, wilderness preservation, has suffered from a two-pronged assault, one political and the other theoretical. On the front of political practice, the attack has come from the so-called environmental justice movement.1 This movement is better conceived as the human justice movement. My renaming is not a slight. Human justice is a fine goal, but it is not environmental justice. As even a cursory reading of the environmental justice literature suggests, the main concern of the environmental justice movement is humans. The nonhuman is only of interest insofar as it affects humans. Therefore, although the environmental justice movement is often concerned to clean up the environment, at other times it is content to support practices that harm the environment and the nonhuman in support of some human concern, frequently jobs. Never is the environmental justice movement primarily concerned with wilderness. Fundamentally, the environmental justice movement does not support environmental issues that impinge on human interests or rights. Indeed, the environmental justice movement attacks environmental groups that support wilderness or endangered species as racist and classist.