Reckoning

Reckoning: an imperfect means of navigation by which one determines where they’re going using only where they’ve been.

Reckoning: a settling of scores; justice.

Environmental justice: the notion that the people responsible for shaping the ways humanity collectively values and interacts with all ecosystems, forms, and sources of life have not historically been the people who suffer the consequences of those choices, and that needs to change.

Reckoning: a nonprofit, annual journal of creative writing on environmental justice. 

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